I'm going to go against the grain here...

Rating: 3/10 (24 January 2005)

I went to see this at the cinema, half-heartedly, with my brother and a few friends. Half an hour into the film I walked out, paid another nine bucks and went to see American Beauty instead - a film I would have paid another ninety dollars to see. But, I digress...
I rented it out a few months ago to see what I'd been missing and, well, I can relate to the lead character. He winds up wishing for death - by the end of the film, I was doing the same.
Sorry, but it just didn't grab my heart strings and give them a good old-fashioned tug. More than anything, it bored me. Maybe I'm desensitized, but while I do think there's too much misery and death in what comes out of Hollywood these days, you can go too far the other way. The Green Mile did just that.
A story like this could have been told in half the time (my God, it was long), and without the melodrama that was oozing from every pore. I don't have a lot of faith in the supernatural, so the only miracle associated with this film would be getting me to see it again.