Good God 3 hours?

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 1999)

Thin Red Line: I am thinking more like a thin line between a movie and death itself. This has to be one the most horribly made movies I have ever seen. About 1 hour into the movie I just sat thinking to myself I have not had the urge to fall aslleep or commit suicide in a movie theater since I saw "The Big Lebowski" last spring. I think it stems from the the annoying narratives, by about the 3rd time he starts spewing out his plethora of attempts at some kind of poetry you want to go into the movie and order him to attack the bunkers just so you can at least sit in this movie for the next 3 hours without losing your sanity.
And what is this fascination with the island people? Every other dream lapse was some naked islander kid swimming in the ocean, or it was the couple making love or whatever with their clothes on.
As for the fight sceens, I admit I went to the movie to see that. I was thinking this would be a Pacific version of the movie " Saving Private Ryan" but it wasn't. Sadly I would think they had enough time to see the marvelous special effects and camera angles that "Saving Private Ryan" had they would want to keep up with it or top it. Well that didn't happen, I felt like I was watching Platoon all over, you know shoot from the hip kind of crap. The Americans wipe out the enemy with like, well in this movie 7 guys on that Bunker attack.
Just not a really well put together movie at all, either do the war or do the sappy dreaming these people seem to do for most of the movie. Dont intermix them. The Cameo appearances should be noted as low spots for the big named actors. What are they thinking? It doesn't help the movie out. Just makes you think they must know this movie is not good so they added some big named people to get me to waste 3 hours of my life. I would have rather just sat at home watching the home shopping network or the Real World, so now you know how low the movie is. I mean the real world is about as low as you go.
So in conclusion I don't recommend this unless you want to extract information from somebody and you use this as a torture method.

And who is that guy who said 20 yrs this movie will be well known? It may be well known for ending the careers of a few talented actors.
-Mike