Predictable (SPOILERS)

Rating: 4/10 (14 October 2000)

WARNING: SPOILERS
What a disappointment! The Green Mile is nothing but a predictable movie. The characters are too shallow. The four guards, John Coffey and Delacroix represent Good, Wild Bill and Percy represent Evil. The film gives us no reason why Percy acts the way he does, nor does it say why John Coffey has its power. Someone might think those powers were given to him by God, but it's nonsense. Why would God give someone the power to cure others, if he allows everyone to die? And why does he need a human to do it, when he can do it himself? And things like that. The film tries to make some critics, ("What the hell was that?" "A successful execution" "You call that successful?" "He's dead, isn't he?") but the point is lost in the melodramatic atmosphere the director (unsuccessfully) tries to create. That scene when John Coffey is executed was simply ridiculous. I almost laughed. The Green Mile is just plain stupid. And that thing at the end? "He infected us with life". What was the purpose of that? Nothing, but to add more melodrama.