The Thin Red Line

OK, here's the real deal: this movie isn't for everyone. Either you'll find it to be brillant or you'll want to kick yourself for spending the 3 bucks to rent it and the 2 and a half hours to watch it.... Full review

Was a major mistake to release this movie so close to Saving Private Ryan. They were not even on the same level. Just could not get into the characters in this movie.... Full review

Pretty good war movie, but not as powerful as it could have been. Actualy, the first two hours are great, but then the third wonders aimlessly. In the first two hours, the characters are so well developed that we can live... Full review

Although not Saving Private Ryan The Thin Red Line is fairly close, Line is also just a step up from the noisy Black Hawk Down. All the performances are great, with surprisingly Sean Penn being the weakest, and Ben Chaplin the... Full review

One thing that is great about Thin Red Line, is that it both looks at the physical aspects of war and the horrors of Guadacanal, and it also looks at the mental aspects of it. The soundtrack adds to the drama... Full review

This is one of the most beautifully crafted and haunting films that I have ever seen. Not only is the amazing ensemble cast give truly beautiful, effective performances, but the direction and cinematography combines to create a magnificent visual and... Full review

what many people do not know is that this film, directed by terence malick, is without question the reason that Shakespeare in Love won the best picture oscar over the much favored Saving Private Ryan. why am i saying this?... Full review

The greatest fault of The Thin Red Line was its timing - it was released at around the same time as Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. While most people dismissed The Thin Red Line as the `other' World War II movie... Full review

This film is unlikely to be appreciated by audiences reared upon a diet of dumbed-down Hollywood action fare. However, if you're prepared to sit down and watch THE THIN RED LINE with no interruptions and give it the attention it... Full review

By far the best film I have ever seen. It baffles me that people could criticize this intricate metaphysical look at war, nature and humanity. The cinematography is so superb that each frame of the film stands on its own.... Full review

one soldier wonders in one of the many pretentiously poetic voiceovers that riddle this long, boring film. But the rest of the film follows a contradictory and faulty motif: war as an abomination on nature. ... Full Review

The Thin Red Line isn't an easy film or a perfect one. As all these voices converge on the battlefield and the battle scenes rank with the greatest ever filmed -- The Thin Red Line grows steadily in power and poetic grandeur. ... Full Review

Koteas and Nolte come the closest to creating rounded performances, and Woody Harrelson has a good death scene; actors like John Travolta and George Clooney are onscreen so briefly they don't have time to seem like anything other than guest stars. This leads to an almost hallucinatory sense of displacement, as the actors struggle for realism, and the movie's point of view hovers above them like a high school kid all filled with big questions. ... Full Review

The Thin Red Line'' is last year's second great film about World War II. It's not a perfect film. Malick's Psychological War Ambitious WWII film one of 1998's best Several famous faces turn up over the course of the story, getting in on the action. ... Full Review

Basically, when The Thin Red Line sticks to the battlefields, it's an absolutely excellent film. There are several sequences in The Thin Red Line that rank among the finest war simulations I've ever seen. ... Full Review

Maybe it should happen more often-a willful auteur, after his/her mega-epic has been released to mixed critical reaction and audience indifference, is forced/encouraged to trim his monster's fat and release it again . ... Full Article

(DEEP breath) Okay, let me just say there's definitely a great artist at work here. Director Terrence Malick ("Badlands", "Days of Heaven") tells the story of Army rifle company C as they move through the battle for Guadalcanal, the turning... ... Full Article

It's not a perfect film. It aims to do something so audacious and ambitious that it was doomed to succeed only partly at best. In ``Saving Private Ryan,'' Steven Spielberg strove brilliantly to re-create the experience of being on the ... Full Article

There are three things to look for when you see "The Thin Red Line" : How close it comes to James Jones' novel, on which it is based. How it compares to the year's other big World War II movie, ... Full Article

Wednesday December 23, 1998 For months and even years after World War II officially ended, gaunt, sepulchral figures would periodically emerge from the jungles of some South Pacific island--isolated Japanese soldiers who either hadn't known the fighting was over or... ... Full Article