The reason why films were invented!!!!!!!

Rating: 10/10 (15 October 2008)

The Green Mile is a perfect and all round excellent film. The acting is simply damn good emotional, the direction is ecstatic and full of wonderful camera shots and a story that one could only admire with great belief and the fact remains that Darabont has produced a classic of epic scales and depths. The charisma and boldness of each touch to character and story is a perfect blend and shows a director at full working power. Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan) delivers an outstanding performance that both uplifts as well as charms.
The story is set in non- chronological order which gives the depth of the film more purpose. The story follows a group of Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's. Paul Edgecomb (Hanks) has watched men live and die on death row and so has shaken his faith and sanity. But when enters John Coffey (Clarke-Duncen) an 8 foot giant man accused of the murder and rape of two young girls Edgecomb befriends this giant man and begins to learn that he wasn't the one who committed the murder.
A mystical, powerful and deeply moving film that explodes with fantastic performances and one heck of a directorial masterwork proves Frank Darabont is one of the most exciting and provisional dramatic directors of all time. The Green Mile is film that'l have you laughing, crying and admiring.