Most Innovating Movie of the Decade

Rating: 8/10 (17 February 1999)

"The Thin Red Line" is not and has nothing to do with "Saving Private Ryan" except that both movies are set during WWII. "Saving Private Ryan" is an American propaganda film like a lot of movies coming out of Hollywood these days ("Independence Day", "The Siege"). While "The Thin Red Line" is a Work of Art that takes storytelling in movie one step beyond and therefore can be compared to "2001:a Space Odyssey."
Like "The Thin Red Line", "2001" also had a lot of unfavourable reviews when it first came out, simply because a lot of people 'didn't get it'.
"The Thin Red Line" is a great movie, although at this time it looks to me that from all the points it reflests upon, not all of them come across, but I really like the film for letting the audience THINK and make up their own mind about what the film means to them.
I'm really looking forward to more intelligent movies coming out of Hollywood.