A Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (3 November 2005)

The Green Mile is a truly piece of art as a film, few movies are so complex, emotive and so damn well acted like this one. Frank Darabont did a amazing job adapting this highly well written novel to the screenplay and "bravo" for him as a director as well. I consider myself not a fan of Tom Hanks but his acting here is impeccable and is hand to hand with his performing in the film Philadelphya perhaps his best. In The Green Mile happens something that doesn't happens so often in movies and it lies in the acting each and every actor in this film did a stunning amazing job, lets face it no one looks less than the other and that is what makes this movie outstanding and grateful. Doug Hutchinson was so fine as Percy and he made his character just as the same one we can find in the book if not better, we all hate him eh? The Late Michael Jeter was excellent as Delacroix and his acting here is one of the best in the film, we could almost feel his love for this another great actor, the little mouse jingle, his partner in cell, even the mouse did it well I think Jeter was the right choice for the Delacroix role, damn he is Delacroix my respect for him wherever his is now. Michael Duncan as the giant healer Jhon Coffey give us his best performance to date i know a lot of people who broke in tears when his character was executed on the electric chair and that tell us how well portrayed was Jhon Coffey by Mister Duncan "A real God creation" says Tom Hank on the film. Sam Rockwell's performance , in my opinion, is the best in all the film his portrayal as the disgusting, lunatic "Wild Bill" Wharton was very very amazing and he really stole the show, what a crazy guy this Sam Rockwell hehe. Besides the acting in The Green Mile everything seems to be right the sets are perfect, the cameras shots excellent, the editing work was great as well the audio too, no big special effects, everything seems so real and in place, and one of the most important thing an amazing great screenplay, a very complex movie for fine tastes. This is one of those few films that you can watch once or two times per year and still finding new things on it and still getting stunned by the acting work, Frank Darabont really deserved an Oscar for his directing here I don't understand why he did not won. For those movies or Stephen king's fans who haven't seen Green Mile yet i recommend them to go out and rent it or buy it you won't regret it, without any doubt one of the biggest achieves for a DVD collector.This one of the greatest king's novel and it is perfectly adapted to the big screen as it should be a really worthy ten of ten. Great for Darabont and company they did a fantastic job.