There are better ways to show an innocent person being punished!

Rating: 1/10 (18 September 2015)

I usually post reviews of films that I happen to be completely mesmerised by or those which I think could have been worthy of 10 out 10 stars if not for this or that flaw (and for the latter ones the sole purpose of the review itself is to point out the flaws), but this one has compelled me to write out a review just for how bad it is! 'Django Unchained' (2012) was a film that almost made me compose a review for the same reason but that at least had the charm of Dr. Schultz's role and the unique concept of bounty-hunting.
This film however is so bad that I didn't even want to give it one single star but I had to in order to register my protest on the IMDb. Still, if I have had to justify that one star I would it split into halves for the performance by Tom Hanks and for that brilliant joke by by one of the guards of carrying a mouse in his wallet.
It might have made sense as a novel, so no disrespect to that, but as a film it did not. What really was the purpose of the film? To show an innocent being punished? A miracle man? Ill-treatment of blacks? Or worse, the tricks a mouse can perform, or the suffering caused by a bladder infection? Any or all of it doesn't mean that you should end up making such an amazingly boring film. John Coffey 's tears and show of innocence made me feel like punching the screen. He was annoying!
The worst being, they make a three-hour long film, bore you to death, and yet still leave so many questions unanswered: how exactly was John trapped into being accused of raping and murdering those girls? It hasn't been shown, not even when he makes Paul 'feel' his pain by holding his hand - the only thing shown in that scene is how Wild Bill rapes and kills them. So it is left as a John's claim. And, for exactly what was Bill in for? What was his offence?
Another strange scene being, Melinda welcomes John in her room by hurling abuses and asking him not to even come close to her, and yet after she is cured she suddenly relates a dream to John in which she saw both of them!
The first half hour gathers your interest and then you wait on and on for that thing to arrive which makes it earn 8.5 stars over here, but it never does! Arrrgghhhhh, a bad film all around!