Ridiculous and Cliche

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2000)

This is about as cornball as "Patch Adams". There was definetly some creative license taken with this movie. C'mon, this evil cop or whatever that pops up through Hurricane's whole life just to screw him over. Or the really nice prison guard, who even shows up to Hurricane's final trial. And it's almost criminal not to have the other convicted man in the final trial scene with Hurricane.
I can't believe some of the corny moments. After reading Hurricane's letter, he looks up and sees birds flying. And the celebrations at the end. I expected them to put in stock footage of people in foreign countries out in the street applauding.
And this cliche dialogue. Like "You don't choose the books, the books choose you".
They never fully explained what the deal with the Canadians were. I'd like to know their real life story. Their living arrangement seemed really odd.