GRAND! No Big Spoilers

Rating: 10/10 (10 March 2010)

Small failures can't stop this movie from being grand, moving and very well made. In it's first, and elegants scenes, we see Andy Dufresne finding his wife and her lover dead, and then Andy being falsely Accused of murder and sentenced to prison. This first scenes although great, are not very important to the movie, because the movie does not turns around Andy's false accusation (We know that since the beginning), it's about what he learns and teaches inside the prison. Although Robbins's performance is not excellent, he gives the character an air of sadness, and in almost every scene of the picture, we can see through his expressions that he is always either angry because he is not supposed to be there, or upset because he can't find a way out of there. Despite the fact that this movie is not very original, and when I say that I'm remembering that it took a lot of elements from Don Siegel's "Scape from Alcatraz" (I mean, it can be coincidence, but don't you think that Brooks's raven is very is very similar in the story to the mouse of "Scape from Alcatraz?), the movie covers it because it's always grabbing you on the screen , I mean, there wasn't a single moment in the whole movie that I thought was boring.
Verdict: With a powerful moving story, charismatic characters (Especially Freeman's), this Excellent movie is a great study of agony and friendship.