minor point

Rating: 9/10 (29 March 2007)

This movie is certainly VERY well done. The plot is nice (Stephen King never fails you down) and acting is superb, in particular Tim Robbins and Bob Gunton, the director. You should see it, but in my opinion it is not very original among "jail-movie" and not worthy of such a high position, ranking on the IMDb's top 250 list.
Another minor point which prevent the movie to get an excellent movie is the fact that all characters are "one-dimensional stereotype". I mean that in this movie characters can be extremely positive or extremely negative, sometimes forgetting that human beings have complex behavior.