Very Long and Very Difficult to Understand.

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2004)

The Thin Red Line is a mix between poetic peace and World War II. The poetic scenes do get very dull after a while, but the view is beautiful. In the movie, we are lead by Pvt. Witt (James Caviezel) in the battle at the island Guadalcanal lead by Sgt. Fife (Sean Penn) and Lt. Col. Tall (Nick Nolte). They seize many of the Japanese from the island, and one of the members of the platoon tries to ignore the situation and think of his peaceful life at home. The Thin Red Line is not a bad movie by any means, but is somewhat dull and runs on empty formula. Saving Private Ryan was a much better look at World War II and the much more fateful conflict of D-Day. This has an excellent choice of a cast and an impressive direction by Terrance Malick. Even though it is vivid and poetic, some of it is frustrating and too hard to digest as a war film. The Thin Red Line is a good war movie, but not exactly what I expected.
7/10 stars.