The most ambitious, and the best, film of the decade.

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 1999)

As the 1990's draw to a close, it is pretty safe to say that Terrence Malick's THE THIN RED LINE is one of the few films of the decade that will regularly turn up on future lists of the greatest films ever made. This is not by any stretch of the imagination, your typical Hollywood war/action film,(no doubt why so many are having trouble with it). What it is is a profoundly passionate, and personal cinematic exploration into the very heart and soul of man, nature and the eternal quest for spiritual solace in a world vying against itself. I urge anyone who loves movies, who truly believes in the redemptive power of a great work of art, in any form, to forget what you may have heard and see this film. It is a transcendent masterpiece, one that will live on long after the safe, homogenized, corporate crap that we are normally fed is long forgotten.