Walk a Mile You'll Never Forget

Rating: 9/10 (2 August 2015)

The Green Mile is a film from 1999 starring Tom Hanks (Da Vinci Code, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan) and Michael Clarke Duncan (Sin City, Planet of the Apes, Daredevil). It also was written and directed by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Walking Dead, The Mist) and was adapted from the Steven King (The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Stand by Me) novel of the same name.
The Green Mile is about Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), a guard for the people on death row and the one of the newer members of the men on death row: John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) who seems to have mysterious gift.
This film would not work if the acting was sub-par, it needed to be great to pass. And thank God it did because the acting in this film is truly incredible. Tom Hanks (of course) is great. But he seems to be outshined by a man who has only been in bit parts in movies and TV and a small part in Armageddon which came out the previous year. This man is Michael Clarke Duncan and he gives a great performance of a man who has a very special gift. He plays a enormous man who is afraid of the dark and has been sentenced with the murder of two little girls, but we learn he cares deeply for people and for life itself.
Another part of this film's success is the writing of Frank Darabont. According to Steven King, this is the single closest adaptation to his writing he has seen on screen. But Darabont seems to capture King's story and ideas and puts them perfectly onto paper fully fleshing out the characters.
My only two problems with the film are that the effects are a little dated and the film might be a bit too long, but it still is a very touching, emotional story that will certainly touch you too.