If a survey was ever conducted and people were asked whether they would rather die than spend the rest of their lives in jail for a murder they did not commit, my guess is that many people would choose death over a future like this. This is the main story of the Shawshank Redemption, which came out in 1994.

The movie Shawshank Redemption” with a score of 9.3 has the highest ranking on IMDB of any movie ever made. Why is this movie so great? In my opinion, its because it has the perfect story of revenge and triumph over pure evil and injustice. It would be a perfect world if real life worked out the way it does in great movies like the Shawshank Redemption and that is another​ reason why we go the movies, because we want life to work out so good always triumphs over evil, right over wrong. We want life to make sense, but too often it’s​ horribly unfair and evil seems to triumph over good way too often.

Shawshank is yet another example of an acting performance and an opportunity for greatness that happens only once in an entire career, in this case, Tim Robbins. It is a shame that Robbins never got a great leading role like this again and for this great performance, he was not even nominated for any best actor awards, but it seems that this is the life of an actor in Hollywood. You have the very fortunate few and then everybody else who try their whole careers for that one great role. Morgan Freeman is also in this movie in arguably one of his best roles as Tim Robbin’s friend and Freeman was nominated for best actor in a leading role for Shawshank.

Shawshank Redemption came out in 1994 and most people have​ seen it by now, but if you haven’t you owe it to yourself to see one of the greatest movies ever produced.

I am once again, embarrassed to admit that I saw this movie and I saw it mainly because of the positive recommendation of Richard Roper (see video below). This movie tries to combine foul language, raunchy jokes and humor, sexual innuendo, religion, the belief in God and a cartoon all in one movie. Any person seeing this bad movie would recognize that this combination of things has probably never happened before in a 2-hour​ film along with the fact that it’s just not funny. Nobody in the audience laughed and I sure didn’t laugh either. So for this reason alone, a comedy cartoon movie that is supposed to be funny and isn’t, I cannot recommend this film. I thought that the graphics were good, but for so much computer graphics for a movie that was not good, I thought was a waste of a great deal of hard work. Miss this film and wait for a cartoon movie that is actually funny because this one is not.

Morgan is another one of those films where you have to temporarily suspend your logical mind for two hours to buy into the premise that the world of science is capable of creating what they call a “synthetic person” from a Petrie dish. Of course, biological science is many years from being able to do something like this, much less having any world Government allowing cloning a human person in the first place. What would fix this biological science inaccuracy would be to have a blurb that says that this story happens in the future at the beginning of the movie, but there is no mention of this as the movie starts so the assumption is that this far-fetched story happens in the present day.

Relative newcomer Anya Taylor-Joy plays the synthetic creature and she is made up to look somewhat like an alien, mostly because of her skin which has a different look to it than normal human skin. Her actions in this movie consisted of some minor dialogue that proves she is highly intelligent even though she is chronologically only 5 years old and killing people rather violently about 7 times. Kate Mara plays an insurance risk adjuster of all things who is sent to a run-down mansion where this biological experiment is taking place to determine whether the risk of an experiment like this is worth the potential profit. The first stupid thing that made no sense was at the start of this film. One of the scientists conducting this experiment​, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh is stabbed in the eye unexpectedly​​ during an interview by Morgan. After this, any scientist​, lab technician​ or idiot with the lowest IQ would make sure that if anyone else is with this unstable​ creature again, she would​ be in restraints so she cannot hurt or kill anyone else, but that is not what happens​ here, which is ridiculous. ​Sure enough, Morgan attacks a psychiatrist played by Paul Giamatte later in the film. For me, I was surprised​ that actors of the caliber of Kate Mara and Paul Giamatti​ are in this film in the first place because overall it is just a small cut above B-movie​ status.

For reasons not explained anywhere in this film, this synthetic creature, despite the fact that she is extremely intelligent becomes very violent and kills people several times during this film in the hopes of escaping to some area in the woods with another lab technician who she thinks loves her. There are several impressive fight scenes between Kate Mara and Morgan later in the movie and a trick unexpected ending that doesn’t​ hold water as the film concludes. This movie has too many implausible ideas​ and for that reason I do not recommend​ it.