Magnificent

Rating: 10/10 (10 March 2000)

I just saw this movie yesterday and now I feel ridiculous for waiting so long. It was really great and I am sorry it did not win any Oscars, because it deserved to win more than "Forrest Gump", in my opinion. Tim Robbins actually played a likable guy and Morgan Freeman was perfection.

SPOILER ALERT!!!
I cried when "Red" was given parole! I also should have known what was going to happen to Tommy Williams, but that caught me by surprise.

I do have one problem with the movie, but I got over it right away and did not diminish from the entire experience. If Andy's cell was on an upper level, and in between other cells, where was this tunnel he built actually supposed to be?
The ending was very cathartic, thank God. After the brutality and injustice portrayed in the movie, we needed that. And the ending was very beautiful too.