Rent The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Thought provoking excellence - The Shawshank Redemption review by CP Customer

This Stephen King adaptation leaves an after-thought like no other movie I have watched. Set in Shawshank prison, the cast present a very believable mixture of personalities that have wound up serving time with each other. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman set aside from the rest and tell the story of their prison lives from an intelligent and moralistic standpoint, which takes you on a ride of different emotions and a truly remarkable twist.

You won’t be disappointed! - The Shawshank Redemption review by Schrödinger's Cake

Shawshank redemption generally lives in the top-5 of all the best-films-ever-made lists. If you’re reading this review because you’ve still not seen the film, then you’re wasting time: just get on and watch it for yourself. You won’t be disappointed!

4K mastering a little disappointing. An archetypal prison movie but not but not first.. - The Shawshank Redemption review by MM

I had never seen this film before so was keen to see it in a 4K master. The transfer is a little disappointing and I wonder if that would really be much to see in terms of improvements in quality over standard Blu-ray. The film detail was fuzzy and lacked definition..

The film itself Seems to be the archetypal prison movie. Well I can appreciate that in its day it was probably groundbreaking by today’s standards The film less so. The film of innocent man going to prison and through a series of ordeals becomes a different man has been well trodden and maybe this film is the grandfather of all of those films but it followed a parcel already trodden by films like Cool hand Luke . you can virtually protect every plot point in the story and maybe that that’s because it’s been copied by everyone else. I think however the subject matter has been finally polished by subsequent movies and done a little better. I did find it very engrossing And it held my  attention. Are usually watch all the extras as I often find them very interesting. This film had an audio commentary but I didn’t listen to it. Hope that’s because I didn’t want to watch the movie a second time and was not that interested in it. For that reason I give this film four points. I certainly wouldn’t put this in a list of the best films of all time And scratch my head towards the way it has such a reverential status.