A Masterpiece Most People Simply Didn't Get

Rating: 10/10 (29 May 1999)

While Spielberg's you-know-what was a great film, too, Terrence Malick's epic gets my vote as 1998's best WW2 flick. "Saving Private Ryan" contained about 30 minutes of stuff like I'd never seen before, but "Thin Red Line" had nearly 3 hours of stuff I'd never seen before. I will never forget this film for as long as I live. Nick Nolte gave one of the most powerful performances of his career and the huge cast of guest stars did not distract from the movie's power. The whole thing plays like a dream, and I hope that it will retain that quality when it comes to video this month.