The greatest film ever made!

Rating: 10/10 (12 April 2005)

This is the greatest film ever made ..... bar none! It has everything you could ever want in a film and more! The story is quite different to the short story by Stephen King but thats not necessarily a bad thing as the Green Mile followed the book closely and wasn't nearly as good as this! It says if you can to think of a film to compare it to but its in a genre all of its own. Other good prison films I could suggest are "Against the Wall" and "Killer: A Journal of Murder". Both of these are good but lack the depth of characters portrayed in Shawshank. For a good prison televisual drama then "Oz" has to be the best thing to come out of America after the Simpsons, it has the characters and plots to match Shawshank but generally without the feel good factor thrown in.