Film Loop

Rating: 4/10 (19 January 1999)

After watching TTRL yesterday my friend and me sat there talking about what a let down this movie was. I have never read the book so I had no preconceived visuals of what the film was going to be, I was just expecting a decent movie at least. What I got was a movie that almost seemed sophmoric in effort,there were some powerful scenes in the movie, but it was one of the worst edited movies I've ever seen, No character development half the time you didn't even know who was who(When will they learn not to cast actors who resemble each other to play supporting roles in the same movie)or did you really care. Malick tries to introduce a dozen or so people so you end up knowing nothing about any.And predictable in style A:soldier gets shot. B:Panaramic of how majestic nature is, i.e sunset,rolling brook,leaves on a tree, or a dozen or so red parrots, ohh sometimes bats too. C: Back to soldier getting shot,repeat process throw in some guy thinking of wife for 5 minutes for the tenth time. I'm sorry this movie was not moving or even poetry it was just bad. It could be cut about 45 minutes,to make it a coherent movie with substance.Like said in many other posts Cinematography was excellent but that does not make a three hour movie.