JOHN COFFEY IS MASSIVELY AWESOME!

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2000)

This was an Awesome film. The sort of film where you connect with the characters, even Dell, one of the prisoners on death row. John Coffey was a really wonderful character. His mannerisms was quite innocent despite his massive, intimidating size and fearsome appearance, and he will be a character you'll really feel sympathy for. Tom Hanks, as always, was totally awesome!
The prison guards' attitude toward the prisoners on death row (save one!!) was also unusual, they actually had respect for them and treated them as best as they could, knowing full well these men were going to be executed in the near future. (I went in theater expecting these prisoners to be treated like animals, actually)
The story line was very detailed, the sort of plot you will have to concentrate on, because this movie is over 3 hours long! The ending was very sad, but I shall not go into detail on that (spoiler!)
Overall, this was a sad movie, but not depressing, and to date the best Stephen King movie adaptation I have ever seen! Generally I avoid any movie attempts on Stephen King's books since they are done badly and are rarely true to the book (Example: The Tommy Knockers). But this has to be the most successful of all his book/movies.
CONCLUSION? This is a definite must-see. But be warned: there are extremely graphic execution scenes in this, so if you can stomach that, then you will enjoy this movie.