One of the greatest movies you'll ever, ever see.

Rating: 9/10 (20 May 2016)

BELIEVE the hype. Best film ever says IMDb ? Couldn't defend the Godfather's case if I tried, but this. This is just supreme cinema. You WILL NOT be disappointed by this, even with the seemingly excessive hype that surrounds it now, decades later. Everything is there...everything. Calling it 'perfect in every way' makes one just seem like a biased fanboy bereft of any objectivity, but really, on a number of levels, everything you will come to expect of brilliant, masterful cinema, you will find here. Its cinematography, plain but efficient; its length, just right, not one scene too long or too many. The acting, superb all-round, and the characters as vivid and efficient/relevant to the story as possible. The tension in the film: just right. We're always given compelling events to deal with, some rough and tragic, that just deepen the film more and more, while creating subplots and rejuvenating the story with newer elements, but while never straying away from the whole point of the film, which is, ladies and gentlemen, so touching and unique I'd have great difficulty to find a climax as beautifully directed, imagined and executed, and as magically cultivated scene after scene, until this utmost emotional eruption. The dialog, Freeman's narration, the complexity on so many levels and the layers of the plot, the theme of good vs evil, of never giving up, the thirst for justice, the intelligence manifested through the main character... This film is so beautiful, and masterful...it's quite possible, I'd have to admit...it's quite possibly the greatest film of all-time. 10/10 most certainly.