Makes you want to cry, makes you want to laugh, makes you want to smile, one of the greatest!

Rating: Null/10 (3 April 2004)

"The Green Mile" should be in the thesaurus as a synonym for "amazing". The story it tells is one of the saddest, heartwarming, most brilliant ever told (and I don't mean just in movies). Everything about this movie is perfect, it literally has no flaws. Yes, some may complain about the running time, but anything shorter wouldn't have been able to tell the story right. Truly, I doubt anyone could put up a good argument that this isn't a terrific film.
The [brilliant] story focuses on death row guard Paul (Tom Hanks) and how he copes with his job - executing the inmates. Everything is regular until gentle giant John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) arrives with a death sentence for the rape and murder of two little girls. Coffey is an unlikely pedophile/killer - he's afraid of the dark, he cries in his sleep, he speaks with an innocence as if he's never come in real contact with a person before. Seeing this, Paul starts to question whether or not Coffey committed the crime he was sentenced with.
Paul is also suffering from a bladder infection, one day, when its really bad, Coffey grabs him, touches him, and then he's healed! He does the same for a pet mouse crushed by the villain Percy (Doug Hutchison). It is thought that maybe Coffey was trying to heal the two dead girls he was found with.
And so starts this great, great film. Every cast member puts forth. There are some great side performances from Michael Jeter, David Morse and Patricia Clarkson - but don't get me wrong, there isn't one bad performance in this movie.
Of course, the greatest comes from Duncan, playing a sad, hulking simpleton often drenched in his own tears. This is the performance of a lifetime for Duncan - who is now unfortunately wasting his talent on "Daredevil" and "See Spot Run". He was nominated for an Oscar for this film, but Michael Caine beat him. This is an outrage, Caine always plays the sympathetic British guy. Duncan's performance is one of the greatest I've ever seen.
This movie is one of the most touching, sad movies I've ever seen, watch it, 9/10.