Excellent Movie

Rating: 10/10 (1 October 2014)

The Shawshank redemption is an excellent movie that was executed perfectly. Based off of the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the movie did an exceptional job of recreating the story. The Shawshank Redemption is a top class movie that needs to be seen by anyone and everyone with the perfect features to make it stand out in the crowd of movies.
The acting in the movie The Shawshank Redemption is one of the main reasons that the movie turned out to be so wonderful. Combining the skills of Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman proved to be a pair for the ages. With two characters, one quiet, reserved character and one popular, outspoken character, both played by actors with similar personalities. Appreciation was shown for the acting in this movie when Morgan Freeman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Academy Awards 1995). Although he lost, it is still impressive considering he lost to Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump/ These two actors were not the only actors vital to the production of this movie. Each individual side character was played by an actor perfect for the part. No actor could have done justice to any of the characters like the actors who starred in the film did.
The story of the movie was possibly one of the best told stories of all time. Although it is a recent story when compared with stories from all time, it does the perfect job of immersing you in the lives and feelings of the characters and of keeping you hooked on what happens next the whole time. Stephen King started off by writing this masterpiece of a story in his novella and Frank Darabont worked with this masterpiece and wrote and directed one of the top one hundred movies of all time (AFI Top 100). The story is told over a just longer than two hour movie, that does not go on too long or too short. After the viewer has finished watching the movie, they are perfectly satisfied.
The Shawshank Redemption has a Motion Picture Association of America rating of R, or restricted. This rating should be lowered too PG-13, known as Parents Strongly Cautioned. Although the movie does have slight hints at sexual activity and scenes with murders and suicide, this does not outweigh the benefit of people seeing this movie. No person of the age above thirteen, or maybe even lower, should be denied the right to view this movie. The Shawshank Redemption has the potential to have an enormous effect on the lives of those who view it. And even if it does not impact their lives, it still could easily change their perception of a good movie or just be an enjoyable two hours of their lives. Without such heavy restrictions on the age of those who can view the movie, maybe it could have a chance to be more widely viewed, and ultimately more widely appreciated.
The AFI Rating of The Shawshank Redemption shows it ranked as the number seventy two American movie of the past one hundred years (AFI Top 100). I strongly disagree with this rating. The Shawshank Redemption, although it didn't cause any revelations in the movie world (mostly because it was too recent to have done so), is one of the best filmed movies of all time. I personally would rate The Shawshank Redemption in the top ten of all movies, and number one on my own personal list. The less official Internet Movie Database ranking of movies has The Shawshank Redemption as the number one movie of all time (IMDB Top 250). This is a much more agreeable rating for my own opinion on the movie. Having seen five of the top ten movies on AFI's renowned list, I do not believe any of them compare to the quality and entertainment value of The Shawshank Redemption. Although I earlier agreed with AFI's rating of The Shawshank Redemption in the top one hundred, I believe it should be much higher than the ranking they decided on.
Overall, the Shawshank Redemption is a movie that will go down in history as one of the best movies ever created. This future historical relevance is not an exaggeration. If anything, The Shawshank Redemption is an underrated movie. It's not too often that there comes a movie that is as well made as The Shawshank Redemption, so when one is, it is important to fully appreciate it. The Shawshank Redemption is a grade A movie made up of the perfect components of story and acting which come together to make one of the best movies of all time.