Unspeakably dull!!!

Rating: 2/10 (22 July 2002)

How can a movie about the taking of Guadalcanal be so boring? The film takes about 30 minutes worth of interesting material and stretches it out over more than 2.5 hours. Potentially interesting characters are rendered impotent by the fact that they don't do ANYTHING - so how can you care what happens to them? - while others are only present long enough for you to go "wasn't that...?"
By the end of the film I wanted to shoot Private Witt myself just to get him to stop remembering the (totally uninteresting) past.
I give this film 2/10, for the twenty or so minutes where Captain Gaff (John Cusack) leads a team of men to take the bunker & his conversation with Colonel Tall (Nick Nolte) afterwards - it was the only point in the film where I felt any connection to the characters.