A movie from a visual poet

Rating: Null/10 (26 January 1999)

After seeing "The Thin Red Line," one can only say that we are in the hands of one of the great visual poets ever. Malick is able to convey more with one solitary image than most films can with thousands of words. Malick's extraordinary vision does not come along often. Think of Welles, Kurosawa, and Truffaut---pieces of each of them live inside of Malick's films. Let's hope we don't have to wait another 20 years to see a genius at work.