Another Eruption from Stephen King's Evil Soul

Rating: 5/10 (14 August 2014)

This is a dark, mean-spirited movie masquerading as something inspirational. Most of the movie takes place in and amongst the death row cells, inmates and guards. The violence is over-the-top, as per usual in any Stephen King product. Usually, when he writes something, any goodness and light in the movie are just props for the evil, which we are slyly manipulated to swallow.
Case-in-point: Michael Clark Duncan's character: An innocent man with healing ability accused of child murder. Only Stephen King would think of that: He is the master of justifying evil, criminal behavior.
Another example of the sleight-of-hand involved in the screenplay is the casting of Tom Hanks, who usually plays the good guy. In this movie, he chooses to look the other way as innocent men are tortured and murdered by a state penal machine.
We all need to think long and hard about what our values are. Our choices in entertainment reflect the kind of family we came from; how we were raised. Moreover, we need to be vigilant of sly artists who have a talent for deception: Capital punishment is murder. Including a hands-on healer was a cheap tactic to get good, moral people to watch the movie or buy the book. Stephen King is a sick man and we need to see clearly.