after all, not a word against the death penalty!

Rating: 5/10 (8 December 2003)

The simplification of characters, the eternal battle between the 'angels' and the evil that we don't want to see on the screen anymore and the utter professionalism of Hanks acting make this film pretentious and conventional. Well, Hanks insists on treating the condemned humanely, but not a word against the death penalty. Oh, Hanks, the patriotic American son that "we" love so much... of course, he doesn't want to take a minimum risk by pronouncing a single word with a political/radical connotation. They could have easily made a 90mins movie out of this 3hrs long vaudeville.