YAWN!!!!

Rating: 4/10 (21 December 1999)

This film (a numbing 3 hours and 10 minutes) has got to be one of the WORST film of 1999. Yeah, it looks beautiful, the acting is very good, interesting special effects...BUT the movie is thuddingly obvious, subtlety goes out the window early on, and the film stretches out EVERY SINGLE SCENE for no point! SPOILERS AHEAD!!! WE get that the black prisoner is a savior (or something) early on--does it have to be proven FOUR times? What's the point of Mr. Jingles being in the movie--other than being killed and brought back to life? And really the initials of the guy (John Coffey--JC--get it?) was SO obvious it got annoying. It's also mentioned at least 5 times. Ending was pointless and stupid and the movie was just plain DULL!! This movie needs severe editing. A big waste of time and talent.