Horrible Adaption of a Great American Novel

Rating: 1/10 (25 December 2000)

Steven King's recent novel The Green Mile left me spellbound. It seems that he has been stuck in a penitentiary theme ever since the popularity of the motion picture adaption of his award winning novel The Shawshank Redemption, but The Green Mile is another great novel from Steven King. I had the (neither good nor bad) fortune of seeing the screen adaption of The Green Mile this past weekend, and it was the worst movie I have seen in a long while. Just when I thought Hollywood was beginning to produce more and more immaculate movies, something like this comes along. The screenwriter/director and his entire extended family should hand their heads in shame. Almost a mystical and angelic action in the book, John Coffey's expelling of foreign disease from his own body was nothing more than a random person blowing out what looked like bugs.