The Thin Brown Line

Rating: Null/10 (10 March 2000)

This film is yet again an example of all that is horrific about
Hollywood. Under the guise of delivering some sort of powerful
anti-war message and showcasing a bunch of famous actors, the
makers of this film make us pay them $8 to waste three hours of
our time. first of all, the film is pretentiously self-important and overly ponderous. Why didn't the director
and writers just let the story and action deliver the message
instead of patronizing the audience with stupid narrative from
the minds of the soldiers and long, drawn out, stagnant scenes.
Why does Hollywood not give us credit for having brains?
Moreover, the exact message of the movie ends of getting
obscured anyway. Just stating the fact "War is bad" would have
been more effective than the three hours of monotonous boring
garbage this film spewed forth. The greatest cast in the world
could not have saved this film and its horrendous screenplay.
(The screen writer should be sent back to MacDonalds). If
Terrence Malick or whatever the director's name is, feels he
created a great work of art, than he is more of a clueless and
ostentatious fool than even his movie projects he is. The movie
acts as if it has integrity but it actually doesn't. Typical
Hollywood, just three hours of agony instead of two. If you
want to see quality war films, check out Kubrick's "Paths of
Glory" or "Ful