This is what I thought of it...

Rating: 2/10 (21 February 1999)

When I saw the trailers for this movie, I said to myself "Now that's a movie I've got to see." In the wake of Saving Private Ryan, I was enthusiastic in seeing another World War II movie. But to my dismay, this movie for me, was the biggest over-rated movie since Waterworld. "The Thin Red Line" just dragged, on and on and on and on and on. The movie is far too long, the story moves so slowly it stagnates, the movie is all over the place and it hard to follow in parts. I can see how it is a good movie by way of telling the story and the philosophy of the soldiers, but for me this is a movie that had I know it was going to be this bad - I wouldn't even get it out on video. In the cinema I was in, people started leaving approx 3/4 of the way through the movie. This movie is not my style.