Overrated

Rating: 8/10 (8 October 2013)

This is certainly a good movie, but it's not the greatest movie of all time. People hype up this movie too much which persuades other people to develop the same opinion as them. When people are asked what their favourite movie is, they often reply with Shawshank because they don't want to be seen to have a different opinion from the norm. People should develop their own opinions. It's good to see that critics don't rate this film as highly as the general public - I guess this proves that critics truly do know more about movies than the amateurs who consider this film to be the greatest of all time. I also found this film fairly predictable as it was obvious that he would escape in the end.