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Rating: 9/10 (1 March 1999)

How boring can a movie really get? I thought that the upper top of that scale had been reached many years ago, but then this movie hit the local cinema. When I first saw the trailer I thought that this would be a movie like "Saving Private Ryan" but I can't tell you how disappointed I was when I left the cinema. This movie is 3h long - The length good movies of today have - but somehow it felt like 6h. Like in Saving Private Ryan the acting is very good, especially Sean Penn, but unlike S.P.R the director isn't satisfying. I think I've heard a movie-journalist say, that Malick once said after he had made two big movies in the end of the 70'th that "just because one has made some great movies he doesn't have to continue doing only that" - so why not do something else - like collecting butterflies perhaps. So my advice to both Malick and everybody who is planning to watch this movie; start collecting butterflies instead - I can assure you it will not be more boring than this movie.