The good points of this movie have already been stated in the other posts, so I will stick to the points I feel detracted from the movie. This movie never gripped me, I never really felt all that emotionally involved with the characters. Even though 19 years passed in the story, I never got the sense of time passing as I have in other movies that have storylines that span decades. All the characters who weren't prisoners were very one-dimensional. Overall, it was a pretty good movie, but I don't think it belongs in the top 250.