This is the worst movie I have ever seen.

Rating: Null/10 (19 March 1999)

I read through some of the comments by others and I am afraid I cannot remain silent. Usually I just move on but this time I was forced to comment.
This website actually has a little plot line listed; giving the incorrect impression that there was a plot.
I saw none. I saw paddling. I heard narration. I saw camera shots that have been in a host of other movies before. I saw characters come and go with no rhyme or reason. I saw a woman on a beach; some other beach. I saw paddling again.
The movie people released a trailer giving the impression that this was a war movie. It was not.
It didn't have to be but at least they could have been up front about it.
I didn't think anything could top Contact as the worst movie I have seen in a very long time but this proved me wrong. I don't know how long I was in the theatre. Days maybe? Weeks? I know it was too long. I aged noticeably.
Seriously though. This movie was a failed artistic statement. It is proof that the only people that are interested in this kind of drivel are artist wannabes. The movie critics and the artist groupies that pat themselves on the back at functions and talk about the low brows that aren't cultured enough to understand a fine piece of work such as this. It's too deep for us.
Being an artist myself I know about these people because they annoy me. They claim to love art and expression but all they really seem to do is try to make it inaccessible by touting anything bad or incomprehensible as great art. This leads the remainder of the people to assume they know nothing of art because they really thought Thin Red Line stunk.
Guess what people. It did stink. It failed to make the grand statement that it set out to make.
It isn't even just that. the enemy in a real war doesn't stop attacking because Woody Harrelson blows his butt up. There is no paddling. Battalions don't attack and assume the entire enemy unit is made up of one stupid man and then go away. Ghosts don't appear and talk to anyone. You don't go AWOL and then rejoin your troops after one heartfelt conversation that makes no sense to the viewers.
Most of these are little things but there are so many of them in this movie that they become one big thing. A bad movie.
Anyway, suffice it to say. Don't go to this movie unless, in your own opinion, you are a deep person capable of thought well above and beyond that of we simple folk. For this is an exceptionally deep movie. So much so that no one understands anything about it. No one I have yet heard from.