The Green Mile (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: An excellent film that entertains for the entire 3 hours 8 minutes!
Disadvantages: 3 hours 8 minutes

...about life on death row. The serialisation was set in Cold Mountain Penitentiary. The original books had the titles, The Two Dead Girls, The Mouse On the Mile, Coffey’s Hands, The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix, Night Journey and Coffey on the Mile. I can still remember waiting each month for the next book to be released and had placed an order to ensure I would get my copy. It is amazing how long a month is when you have enjoyed a story and are ... Read review

Advantages: Amazing film, outstanding acting, moving
Disadvantages: Disturbing

...to get round to watching The Green Mile. I don't know how many times I've read great reviews about it on Ciao and Dooyoo and vowed to see it myself someday. I'm not keen on Stephen King or Tom Hanks, so maybe that was partly why I didn't watch it sooner. Then I saw the DVD on sale cheap about four months ago and bought it. Last night, I finally watched The Green Mile. Wow! What an amazing film. If you haven't seen it yet, don't wait as long ... Read review

Advantages: Great Entertainment
Disadvantages: Long film

The "Green mile", is the name used in the film, for the walk from a prison cell to the electric chair. This film will make you think a little more about the death sentence and how the legal system works in general, although I must emphasise this film is purely fictional and aimed at being entertaining rather than a political statement. The Story ********* Paul Edgecomb (played by Tom Hanks) is a prison guard on death row duty. He has watched ... Read review

Advantages: Story
Disadvantages: Length - perhaps

...that has been adapted from the superb book written by Stephen King that has received so much praise. This film proves that a film can outclass a book especially with superb directing by, in this case, Frank Darabont who directed the Shawshank Redemption. I would personally regard The Green Mile as an epic because of the sheer fact of the great detail and the true realisation of what life on death row is like. The general storyline of the film ... Read review

Advantages: Hanks, most everything
Disadvantages: Ultra depressing

Wonderful films like The Green Mile don't come along very often and so when you do you need to treasure and cherish them and keep them safe and warm. But don't ever take them for granted because such films are very prone to turning on you with a nasty sting in the tale. And while The Green Mile is a truly amazing film with plenty of moments of humour (mainly arising from the comradely relationships between the prison guards on Death Row), ultimately ... Read review

Advantages: Thought-provoking story, great acting.
Disadvantages: n/a

...a Stephen King novel of the same title, and centres around two main characters with a few others around them to carry the film through its various stages. A prison officer, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks' character) who was in charge of block E in a Louisiana State Prison, starts narrating a tale to an lady friend in the elderly home they reside in. He sets off telling her that he used to supervise executions on death row in that prison, known by the ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent film
Disadvantages: none

...a film that has done the book justice. The Green Mile was adapted from the book with the same title written by Stephen King. Because I had read the book first, quite some time ago, I wasn`t expecting it to be that good even though I`d read some great reviews about it. Death row is known as the long mile, but because this row had green flooring it was named the green mile. The leading actors in this film are Tom Hanks who plays the character ... Read review

Advantages: Outstanding EVERYTHING
Disadvantages: NOTHING

...back in 1996 all about the lifes of people on the so called death row. They were as follows: 1. The Two Dead Girls 2. The Mouse On the Mile 3. Coffeys Hands 4. The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix 5. Night Journey 6. Coffey on the Mile I was quite young in 1996 and never actually read the books but one day I think I'm going to get round to reading them all. The film 'The Green Mile' was then released 3yrs later and was a film about all ... Read review

Advantages: Wonderful tale of a bond between two opposites
Disadvantages: A little gory at times

Frank Darabont directs the second adaptation of this Stephen King prison tale (the first being the Shawshank Redemption). This award winning movie stars Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey. The Plot Paul, a Lousiana security guard working on death row during the Great depression forms an unlikely bond with a convicted murderer. John, convicted for the rape and murder of two white girls, does not seem to fit ... Read review

Advantages: Thought provoking, emotional. Could change your life.
Disadvantages: Will make you cry.

...truly touches you and has the power to create emotions within you. The best drama films are ones which do this and change your life. Under these criteria, The Green Mile truly is one of (at least) the best drama films ever made. No I know you’ve heard it said before about hundreds of other films, and cynicism may take over, causing you to switch off now I’ve said this. But I urge you to fight this and listen to what I have to say. This ... Read review

Advantages: You can watch over and over again
Disadvantages: If you are a sop you will cry I always do even though I know what happens

This is the second Stephen King adaptation by producer / director Frank Darabont, the first being the awesome 1994 classic "The Shaw Shank Redemption" another movie set on death row. This time the story again is a simple prison tale and is a hopeful charmer with a hint of the supernatural in there too. The film starts with Hanks in an old folks home filled with emotion whilst watching an old Fred Astaire movie reminds him of his younger days ... Read review

Advantages: Cast, story, effects - you name it
Disadvantages: Nothing worth mentioning

...didn't care for another in the long line of Tom Hanks Oscar winning films but when you're drugged up to high heaven on paracetamol and cough mixture somethings just make sense. But should I get drugged up again and watch something else of the same ilk? Well after this I'm off to the Chemists as I want more of the same. This is an excellent film of that there's no doubt but it does have it's faults. Retired prison warden Paul Edgecomb recalls the ... Read review