Unexpected disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (2 November 2016)

Shawshank redemption is my the favorite movie so far and i have watched it over and over several times. But you can only do that so much. So when i found out that another Stephen King novel about prison has a movie made by the same director you can imagine how keen i must have been to watch it. So, i lie down to watch it. And boy the moment those things came out of Coffey's mouth this movie was set to either surpass everything or just suck. And it sucked.
For one thing, just look how not bewildered everyone is by what JC is doing. That one time when he is resurrecting the mouse Brutus doesn't even bother to show any amazement. I mean, come on supernatural stuff is happening, show some acknowledgment of it, at all.
I don't easily hate movies. And i wouldn't have hated it this much had it come from not a King novel and from not shawshank's director. I was terribly disappointed and i am furious with that.
Also, Sam Rockwell's performance is quite underrated here and as an actor too he is often underrated. Other than Tom Hanks he was the only thing that made me able to sit through the movie.