One of the best endings of all times! Simply wow!

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2015)

I am at a loss of words to describe the greatness of this film, and by all means I give full credit to the book that it is an adaptation of.
Half way through the film I began to enjoy the capabilities of the man and begin to see all that as the point of the film, but then it slows down in pace a bit (for the final "assault") and I end up asking myself the purpose of it all, but then the ending leaves me speechless!
This film, alongside the Bollywood biopic 'Manjhi - The Mountain Man' (2015), are two great examples of the fact how time is of little value when there are no better alternatives to achieve your goal. Often in our life we deny to take certain steps which might help us in achieving a goal in some years, but exactly after spending as much time sitting mum, we reflect on the time spent and regret not having taken those steps in all these years.
A maternal cousin of mine from Denmark visited us in the summer of 2012 and he mentioned this film in a lot of conversation. Sadly, I wasn't too much into Hollywood films yet. Now that I am since over 15 months I checked the IMDb list of top 250 films and found this on the first place. I was immediately reminded of my cousin and thought that he wasn't after all just randomly naming a film.
It was very clever to have shown Andy as innocent. This makes the viewers get more engaged into his suffering in the prison. The scene where he goes to his room with the rope, you almost find yourself saying in heart how this will be great injustice and something very, very sad and depressing.
Again, all in all, this film is out of this world. One of the best of all times.