What a Complete waste of Time!

Rating: Null/10 (12 November 1999)

Being Australian, I am proud to think that our film crews and locations are finally being recognised by America for high quality film making, so when i heard that the war drama Thin red line was being filmed here I was wrapped. A movie with Nick Nolte, John Travolta, John Cusack, Elias Koteas, Woody harelson and Sean Penn would be awesome and do wonders for the local industy.............and then I saw this movie, which in good light makes a more than passing resemblence to a floater in a toilet bowl!
The film was nominated for a sqillion Oscars (including editing??????) why I must ask? The film was disjointed it couldn't decide which characters to focus on so whenever a member of Charlie Company died we didn't even know him well enough to even care at all! I won't make the obvious comparison to Saving Private Ryan but you can't spend 170 minutes in a cinema with people on screen that don't interest you.
All of the big names were wasted in this production, even PENN and NOLTE who were at least allowed to speak for more than 4 minutes onscreen. I can only summize that their sole reasons for agreeing to take part in this claptrap were to get a holiday in Queensland during filming.
save your money, save your bored sole, save the world ....seek out the original print of this film and Bar-b-que it!!!
Rating out of 10? Can I use fractions or decimals?