The Thin Plot Line

Rating: 1/10 (26 January 1999)

I don't know where to begin. Watching this movie was a painful experience and not because it dealt with the horror of war. Rather it was painful thinking that I wasted three hours and $7.75 on this self-indulgent piece of film-school fodder. Don't get me wrong-- I'm open minded to experimentation in cinema, but there are certain basic, time-tested rules for movies that you just don't break. Number one, have a plot. Number two, have some character development. No amount of beautiful cinematography, movie-star cameos, or deep philosophical ponderings can substitute for these two basic elements. So in that way perhaps it would make for good film-school material as a study in what not to do.