big, big flop....

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 1999)

Not once in my life have I ever walked out of a movie before it ended, but this movie came close to being the first. It is absolutely boring, repetitive and exhausting. The movie wreaked of too much effort. It's not even worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Saving Private Ryan.
Malick's intoxicating use of inner monologues made the movie come across as a Calvin Klein commercial. Only the cinematography was worth watching. Malick also failed to convey the moral conflict of war....at least, he didn't do as good a job Spielberg did. Malick's version of war showed little horror to me, the extent of which would have been soldiers getting bombarded by their own air support, which didn't last that long either.
Another problem I had with the movie was the way it was promoted. The production company advertised it as a war movie, yet there was very little action to speak of. They also headlined John Travolta, but he only appeared in one scene.
Ultimately, this movie did not meet my expectations and I would have followed the 3 people that walked out when I went to see this movie but my foot fell asleep.