Walking the Mile (Revised and Expanded)

Rating: 10/10 (2 March 2010)

This, indeed, was the best picture of 1999. Screw American Beauty. It is nothing compared to the Green Mile. It is a rare film made that left me watching through the credits. I mean, it seems like every few years you get a huge handful of good movies, and a huge handful of god awful movies. This is an amazing movie. Handsdown.
The film chronicles the time that Paul Edgecomb spent working at Cold Mountain Penitentiary when John Coffey was there. He was accused of rape and murder of two girls, but Paul is not so sure.
It includes a wonderfully memorable bunch of characters, mine being Eduard Delacroix's, who has one of the best deaths in movie history. Or, as Part 3 of the novel's title "The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix"
The film's visuals were haunting. The locusts were creepy and stunning. And certain minor changes made to the story, like how Paul remembered the mile, actually make the film as good as the novel.