Simply the best!

Rating: 10/10 (17 June 2005)

I'm an action movie buff and watching a drama... ohh! that's way out of my league. I avoided watching this movie for years; one, it was a drama and two, the movie title was so weird, I almost took it for some documentary preaching about salvation. And then there was this one day when I didn't have anything else to watch but this movie.... and the rest I'll say is history. The movie just moved me. The narration by Morgan Freeman was so powerful that his voice still rings bell in my head. Tim Robbins acted great, but so did everyone else in the movie. The way the director has shown the events in various persons life are just too great; special mention for the characters of Andy Dufresne, Red and Brooks Hatlen (the librarian).
To sum it all, this is the best movie I have watched, way better than any of the action movies I have spent my life watching.

"Viks was here."