The Greatest Motion Picture The World Has Ever Seen.

Rating: 10/10 (17 August 2016)

I highly doubt I could sum up in words the sheer adoration I have for Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption, But while I'm here I'll give it a shot.
Upon my recent viewing of The Shawshank Redemption, for what is somewhere around my 7th or 8th time, I decided it was finally time to write my first IMDb film review. It seems only fitting that it be for the tied, greatest film I've ever seen. The Shawshank Redemption in its 142 minute run time, spanning 20 years of the lives of friends, Red and Andy, this masterpiece draws us in more and more as each act and scene passes that by the end we as an audience have no alternative but to praise the journey of emotion we've been on while watching it. This master class motion picture, equipped with not only some of the finest directing (Frank Darabont) and Cinematography (Roger Deakins) we've ever been treated to as an audience, but one of the greatest film scores (Thomas Newman) ever composed and in my opinion, the most excellently written and simply beautiful story in a film since the inception of the motion picture written by the one and only Stephen King.
I can not give enough praise to this film, it was every thing I look for in a film and so much more. The Shawshank Redemption is not just a film, it's THE film.