Why take 2 mins to make a point when you can take 20?

Rating: Null/10 (26 January 2003)

Very disappointing. Beware: other than the prison setting, this WAY overlong production veers left center from its director's "crisp to perfection" previous effort of Shawshank Redemption. The Green Mile is gasically a live action cartoon from wooden one-dimensional performances. Hank's Goody-Two-Shoes guard and Duncan's wrongly accused Stepnfetch gentle giant were especially excruiating to watch. Then there are the Spielbergesque 'pickups' (let's just count how many times one can bear to watch a mouse scamper across a floor) and plot lines that can be seen from forever ("inoperable tumor bad/must come out"). When o when will filmmakers learn that the brilliant imagingings of Stephen King's mind simply cannot be filmed? Satisfying for the masses I'm sure. However as a staunch death penalty opponent, the only thing good I can say about this film is that the execution scenes were realistic enough to sour anyone to that ideal - except that alas they don't use the chair anymore.