Great but still a little over rated

Rating: 8/10 (3 July 2005)

I'd be lying to you if I told you that when Andy brakes out of his cell and crawls to freedom, I wasn't just as happy as the masses of people that call this their all time favorite move. And to say that I wasn't riveted when he is locked i the office and turns up the music while being threatened by the guards would also be untrue. But at the same time, this movie is most certainly not the second best film ever because of one simple reason: It can't decide if it wants to be real with occasional hints of hope or imaginative and dreamy. It drags you along for two hours of hard depressing facts and victory only in the most modest portions, then, for whatever reason, has a Hollywood ending of him digging through the wall then picking up the bank account that there's no way in hell that he'd be able to get in real life. This is great entertainment and I give it a ton of credit for having the ability to maintain my attention the whole time. But at the same time, the ending proved a little disappointing because it betrayed everything that this movie was trying to be.