2 hrs good, 3 hrs tedious...

Rating: Null/10 (24 March 1999)

The Thin Red Line would have been a very good film with more extensive editing. If some of the frankly repetitive and unnecessary scenes and scenery had been cut out and the film shortened to a more manageable length, it would have been very good indeed. As it was there were moments in the film that were very good with some excellent and emotive imagery, but overall these were all far too infrequent and interspersed with copious amounts of boredom. At the end of the film we were willing the credits to roll, and by this point a fair few others in the audience had already given up and left.