Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Davis P Dead Man Walking (1995) is a very emotional film and some scenes, the graphic depictions of a rape and murder in particular. Even though it can be hard to watch sometimes, it still needs to be watched. This has some of the best examples of acting I've ever seen. The performances given by both Sarandon and Penn are absolutely incredible! Susan Sarandon is one of my absolute favorites and this is her best performance in my opinion. She's so emotionally raw and gives her all into every second of this performance. To me, the scene that puts these two legendary actors abilities on display the best, is when Sarandon is talking with Penn before his execution and he its to the rape and murder. The realness and emotional heaviness of that scene was so large and it brings you into the film and makes you feel what these characters are feeling. Every scene in this film does that for me, I feel that strong emotion and the heavy weight placed upon all of these characters. You feel great sadness and anger because of the horrific crime and you understand the depth of each character and why they do what they do. This film has no 2 dimensional characters and no lazy writing, everything is carefully thought out with detail. This is one of my all time favorite films, and one I recommend to everyone that can handle the heavy subject matter. 10/10 for dead man walking. Or of the best!

SlyGuy21 Not a religious movie, not an anti-death penalty movie, but a movie about redemption. About pain, and how it affects different people. "Dead Man Walking" strikes this fine balance between sympathy and personal justice. With no real agenda of it's own, the characters all have their own ways of coping with what's happened to them, whether it be Penn hiding behind his ego, or Ermey wanting the death penalty. The film stays as neutral as it can when covering a controversial topic like this. It doesn't ask you to pick sides, or condemn those who think different, but more understand where both sides are coming from. I can see both sides of the death penalty argument, and I hope I never have to decide personally, but this doesn't portray Penn's character as an animal, more of just a person who's done something bad. He comes off as more ignorant than anything else, foolish, racist, but still a human being, and the scene where he finally its to what part he played in the crime got some tears out of me, I'm not gonna lie. It's a sad movie, but also an inspiring one, and I think everyone should at least see it once, just to see how both sides of a subject can be portrayed

coolgod He isn't sorry for being such an arsehole in real life (but they never are!), but i digress; Concerning the film itself & authenticity:- real people simple aren't that numb to shocking/horrendous behaviour of other's & nor would they be even remotely sympathetic to such a bastard (unless they are a closet bastard as opposed to their religious preacher guise)..., if they were any good they're decent human sensibilitie's would be so offended by Sean Penn playing his real life bastard self (so convincingly) that they would hate the phucker & would volunteer to lethally inject birdschitt into him until he die's on the day of his overdue execution! Another obvious observation litigated by 'Not Your's Truly'

anthonymichaelbangert This simple film based on a true story written off the book by Sister Helen Prejean. It tells her story (played by the great Susan Sarandon)as she gets a letter from a man in prison who is looking for spiritual guidance amidst his impending death row sentence. Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) has been accused of the two counts of rape and one count of murder of a young couple found in the woods. The town is split by those who think he should be put to death for his crimes, and those who think his sentence should be switched to life imprisonment. As Sister Helen tries to help Matthew find peace through God, the parents of the deceased along with much of the town protest against and get mad at her for "choosing sides." All she wants to do, however, is love all, and help this man do the same. At first a racist, terrible human being, we see Matthew slowly start to be changed by Sister Helen. The film is mainly within the prison showing conversations between the main characters, or Sister Helen going places to get other perspectives through conversations with people. This movie also does not choose sides on the ideas of the death penalty. Rather, it just shows the events as they played out, so whatever side a person is on at the start of the movie is where they still will be, most likely, in the end. This movie is about the empathetic relationship between the two characters, and the duo of Sarandon and Penn work extremely well together. It is definitely an emotional film, and worth seeing.9/10