interesting but too long

Rating: 5/10 (26 October 2013)

Presumably on the tide of success of The Shawshank Redemption (1994), the producers decided to bring The Green Mile to the big screen. It used the same prison framework and expanded it with some supernatural elements. Actually, Stephen King did that in his writing which got transfered to the silver screen.
While watching i encountered the same problems as in the other movie which actually stem from the literally template. Writing about supernatural is Stephen King's forte but anything which is even close to portraying actual events feels fake to me. In the same way one wouldn't put an equal sign between a strawberry and a strawberry flavored chewing gum.
The combination of the supernatural and harsh prison reality was interesting to watch, although the former has been obviously not possible and latter fake. In it's ambition to be something of the extraordinary the movie got too long.