Absolutely outstanding

Rating: 10/10 (12 September 2001)

An excellent movie that is beautifully written with one of the best casts ever assembled. Tom Hanks gives another brilliant trademark performance as "Paul Edgecomb" who gets first hand experience of John Coffey's healing powers. Michael Clarke Duncan was robbed of a best supporting actor Oscar as he brings an adorable naivety to the enormous "John Coffey"- a wrongly convicted death row inmate. Although enormous and terrifying on the outside, he doesn't have a bad bone in his gigantic body and one can't but adore him. The real star of the movie though is Michael Jeter who is absolutely outstanding as inmate "Eduard Delacroix"- as well as Doug Hutchinson who plays nasty prison guard "Percy" perfectly, giving a performance so strong you end up detesting him by the end of the movie. An utterly fantastic movie that will have the viewer crying for hours afterwards.Amazing.