Can't wait to see the Director's Cut

Rating: 10/10 (13 March 1999)

This film is amazing. None of my friends liked it. BUT I LOVED IT!
I loved the way mirrored the shifting emotions of the soldiers. I loved the pauses in the action. I loved the emphasis on Nature, and the way it carries on regardless. I loved the way soldiers from both sides reacted when being captured and their behaviour towards their prisoners. I loved the way the soldiers coped when put on the spot, some well, some terribly. I loved the way the soldiers' thoughts were "tuned into". The inevitable comparisons between this and "Saving Private Ryan" will probably lean in favour of the latter. At least by most people. I thought The TRL was much more symbolic and much deeper than SPR.
Finally, the problems (there have to be SOME). I don't think it wise to leave only morsels of some actors performances, George Clooney and John Travolta come to mind, when there were so many scenes that could have been left out without affecting the film at all.
On balance, a film that I can't wait to see the "Director's Cut" of.