10/10? Hardly

Rating: 5/10 (7 January 2000)

Note: Minor spoilers follow: This has been a very sad year for movies. American Beauty and The Green Mile get praise like this? Not in a good year for Hollywood. I can think of only 4 films that would even be mentioned on a Top Ten list, and this certainly isn't one of them. Sure, it was well done and the acting was top-notch, but the screenplay was horrible. Cut the "bookends" with the old man, get rid of the mouse, have the characters show some kind of intelligence, and cut the movie to about 120-130 minutes, and I'd be on the bandwagon. Too many problems to call a masterpiece, or even "great".