Two hours and then nothing

Rating: 7/10 (19 January 1999)

The thin Red line, I'll admit, was my second choice. It was a great movie that showed the love of your fellow soldier. It was not graphic like Saving Private Ryan. Rather, it got inside you with the fear and the insanity of battle and the loss of the soldiers' friends. The character Witt was seemingly the main character and he sort of becomes a reluctant hero to the scared soldiers. The Thin Red Line runs into a problem in that it has so many stars and not enough dialog to go around. Of course if Malick had shared the wealth with the lines, this film would have been an hour and a half too long.
Overall it was a good movie but when the movie seems like it's over, leave then because you're not going to miss anything. Some of the trailers were more intersting than the ending.