One of the worst films I've seen this year

Rating: 2/10 (29 July 2008)

First off I'd like to say that I'm not a huge fan of the "The Green Mile" and whilst I like "The Shawshank Redemption" I personally think the film is overrated. That being said I can understand and appreciate why people would like or even love those movies.
I can not however, understand why people here are giving Frank Darabont's newest movie such good reviews or why its holds the rating of 7.5 which it clearly doesn't deserve. This movie is truly awful, one of the worst that I have seen this year.
The characters have barely any substance to them and are not endearing what so ever. The plot drags on in a mundane and pointless manner and the acting is spotty at best.
Whilst this movie steals moments from great films (most notably "Aliens") and a great music score from the "300", it completely fails to capture the same (or in fact any) sense of urgency, tension, awe and perhaps most importantly in a horror movie; fear.
This may in part be due to the characters insurmountable stupidity. I would like to say that it is reminiscent of cheesy 80s horror movies where the protagonist moves toward the blood curdling screams but unfortunately their stupidity is much worse than this.
As well as this there are points in the movie where the set completely changes in a matter of seconds with no real explanation as why. This added to bad characters and the shoddy acting from the cast playing them makes the whole thing unbelievable and quite frankly totally ridiculous.
The reason why I am giving this film 2 out of 10 instead of 1 (the lowest score you can give) is due to the ending. It is fairly original and coupled with the absurd nature of the rest of the film, is at the very least funny.
This is however no where near enough to save the film. Take my advice and instead of wasting two hours of your life with this terrible movie go and watch paint dry instead. You'll end up being much more fulfilled.