Simply the best movie

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2003)

The famous British movie reviewer Barry Norman said "Your favourite film must be one that you can watch whatever mood you are in." This is simply the case with this movie. Whenever I am down, up, crying, laughing or whatever I can watch this film and feel even better. Tim Robbins plays Andy Dufresne to perfection. A film with so many twists where you think "That's it, he's gonna kill himself" but it carries on and you see all the characters develop, even Morgan Freeman who plays the emotion-less 'Red' (brilliantly, I might add) at the beginning who doesn't give a hoot about anybody other than getting the other inmates what they want turns out to be a person who accepts that there may be hope. A film which is great throughout and has a fabulous ending.