This has got to be definitely one of the most overrated movies I have seen till date. Adapted from a Stephen King novel, the movie tries to bring to the screen the disturbing and dreadful life of inmates in a Penitentiary, somewhat in the moulds of Alcatraz. Although the movie begins by depicting that harsh nature of life inside a prison, as the plot moves on, the prison life kind of gets "cuter" and around the final part of the movie, it looked more like a Holiday resort for the criminally insane.
Morgan Freeman did excel in his role as the repenting criminal, but Tim Robbins appeared happy to just play dumbstruck throughout the movie. A warden and Captain, who runs the prison with an iron-fist, looked no different than the villaineous headmaster and dorm-keeper from an average highschool movie. For such an "acclaimed movie", there were too many of such one-dimensional characters to my liking.
In between, when the the timeline of story jumps to decades ahead, audience feels less convinced, with the characters pretty much looking the same as before, leaving us wondering what kind of anti-aging treatments the inmates were getting there.
The most hilarious scene was when our dorky hero decides to go DJ and starts playing Opera music to the inmates over prison's loudspeakers. This scene,were a bunch of gangsters and thugs stands in ovation all dreamy-eyed, to Classical Duettino, surpasses all other goofy scenes I've seen in any movie. Anyway, even more absurdities were to follow, like digging a tunnel through the high-security prison walls with a pocket sized rock-hammer etc. and eventually you just stop expecting anything sensible or intelligent out of the movie...
The movie has been hailed as one of the best inspiring, motivational movie. Well, surely it can do wonders for insomniacs..
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