Thin Red Line - anthonyaustin18

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2006)

The Thin Red Line suffers from a confusing and meandering narrative, laggard pacing, and over-indulgent film-making in general, which is a shame, since the film has so many powerful moments among the mediocre ones with brilliant performances from john Cusack and Sean Penn. Like Saving Private Ryan, it shows the reality the Second World War and constructs it to the brutal truth that it was with a series of stunning battle scenes that are not easily forgotten. But unlike Spielberg, Malick takes a more roundabout way for making this point, as i watched it in Liverpool switch island cinema i found myself bored sometimes in the slower parts of the movie.
But it is one of the best movies i have seen with very good battle scenes