If you think Jerry Lewis is a genius, you'll love "The Thin Red Line"

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 2002)

There is marketing, and there is Marketing. The Marketing (i.e. trailers and TV ads) for "The Thin Red Line" would lead you to believe you're getting John Cusack, Sean Penn, John Travolta, and George Clooney in a big-budget, kick-arse dubya-dubya-deuce film. The lead review here at IMDB for this film scoffs at people who think this a "Saving Private Ryan" ripoff, but how could you blame people who think that? It's what the film makers want you to think! They're liars!
Instead of action and emotion and talent you get cameos and the guy from "Frequency" thinking about some girl on a swing. He says these "poetic" voiceovers written by the guy who wrote the Lois Lane poem in "Superman" ("can you read my mind?").
This film is a true test of poseurdom. If you like it fine, but if you call it beautiful or moving you don't know what the hell you're talking about. You probably like Jerry Lewis, too.