Good but overrated, and better than Saving Private Ryan?

Rating: 4/10 (12 January 2013)

I don't thinkso. The Thin Red Line is well made, that I don't argue, but better than Saving Private Ryan? No sorry but I have to disagree with people on that one. Plus it had loads of big named actors in it but I don't think Malick knew how to balance all of them. The endless quiet inner monologue scenes were meandering and dull. Plus to me Jim Caviezel just doesn't fit the part of a soldier fighting in the Pacific theater of World War 2. Malick is also pretentious with his directing and constantly tries to hammer in the message that war is bad and "every man fights his own war". Personally I think Spielberg conveyed that a lot better than this film with SPR, I say skip this one and watch the ten part mini series The Pacific instead if you want a better representation of what war was like in the Pacific theater and Saving Private Ryan just is the superior film in terms of its style of story telling and characters. At least the actors in Saving Private Ryan don't get caught up in pointless melo drama.
4/10