Overlong and Self-Important

Rating: Null/10 (29 February 2004)

The Thin Red Line isn't the worst film ever made, but it is overlong, somewhat boring, and takes itself WAY too seriously. The action scenes themselves are well filmed and acted, however the parts where everyone asks why they are there and what the meaning of the world is are overblown and don't mesh well into a war film. Thin Red Line puts forth ideas about life and living and the meaning of it all right into the face of the viewer and basically demands that everyone to buy into the morals presented; a war movie is a bad forum for a spiritual lecture, which is what this is. This would have been great as a straight war movie or as a spiritual film, but not both mixed together.