Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Strictly average movie

Excellent adaptation.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

**NO SPOILERS** I'm enjoying upgrading some of my award winning movies to Blu-ray disc. The picture and sound quality is exponentially better than the standard DVD issues. Plus, I like revisiting the older movies in my collection. Dead Man Walking(DMW) is one of nine movies included in MGM 90th Anniversary- Best of Award Winners box set with Thelma and Louise; Midnight Cowboy; Raging Bull; Leaving Las Vegas; In The Heat of The Night; Rain Man; Dances With Wolves and Rocky. Some include extras I enjoy like commentaries by the Director, and with DMW there's one with Tim Robbins, one with Susan Sarandon and other actors, and, sometimes a documentary on the making of the movie and/or other background stories about soundtrack, script or special effects. I especially enjoy hearing the Director's viewpoint and sharing of his creative process.There's probably not much more I could say than what has already been said by other reviewers. This is a movie that will move you, and if you're not then you're not human. Great acting, great direction, great script, great cinematography, interesting soundtrack. This is not a movie for young children, very intense reenactment of a brutal crime plus language and adult themes. It's obvious in listening to the commentary tract that Robbins is anti-death penalty, but he refrains from getting preachy in the movie and leaves it to us to draw our own conclusions. So get the popcorn ready and the tissues. You are in for an emotional 2 hours.

I think that dead man walking is a simple movie with complex emotions. In this movie, the audience sees two sides of things from Sister Helen's point of view. We get a glimpse of so many emotions, from the victim's and the guilty's. As I was tugged between two parties, this movie really made me wonder if there can be a right punishment for crimes. The movie emphasized on the fact that murderers are humans too, can feel and is able to love just as much, no matter how unforgivable their actions were. I think this movie shows how imperfect we all are, and how we are so unable to be truly freed or satisfied. But nevertheless, only a good movie can draw tears, and it did.

First of all: this movie is so well acted that you are directly connected to the emotions of the characters just by looking into their faces. I have never watched a movie before which grabbed me like this by my throat and didn't let go till the end. And when i am talking about the ending i can say that it is amazing! I loved this movie because it is one of those who changes you're feelings not only when you are watching the movie but for a long period of time. Watch it! and i can guarantee that you will cry. As i said not the Story or the plot are the main factor of this movie. The emotions feelings and the greatly connected acting are making this movie a masterpiece. When you have friends who are support the dead sentencing, go and watch the movie with them. I am sure it will change their thoughts about killing people who killed.

Asked to visit a death row inmate, a middle aged nun finds herself unexpectedly bonding with the convict in question despite his heinous crimes in this well acted human drama starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon. The film is never particularly subtle with its anti-death penalty agenda and it harks on a bit too much about the ease of executing a monster (rather than human being) for its own good, however, the movie also offers a terrific character study in Sarandon's benevolent nun. Throughout the film, she is haunted by flashbacks of killing an animal in her youth and the guilt that she felt at the time, which she evidently equates with Penn's situation, convicted of killing two young lovers. As Sarandon later meets with the families of Penn's victims, the situation grows even more complex for her as she finds herself unable to escape their pain but also drawn to Penn. Solid as Sarandon is in the film though with her internally divided character, Penn shines even brighter here, especially with the changes in personality that he goes through towards the end as he sees his own end approaching. The use of close-ups on the equipment in his final scene is endlessly eerie. Director Tim Robbins also does a great job framing his two leads; there are some excellent shots of them conversing through glass panels with each other's reflection (in the glass) making it appear as if they are sitting side by side. On that note, the connection between the two protagonists here is incredibly strong - much more so than one might expect from two so vastly different human beings.