Review of The Thin Red Line (1998) by Spencer H — 18 Feb 2017
It has been said that war consists of long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Most war movies focus on the moments of sheer terror. Thin Red Line's novel approach is to give you the long periods of boredom instead.
Tedious and punctuated with distracting cameos, much of the movie is mud covered indistinguishable actors mumbling their lines interspersed with nature footage. It watches like Malick really wanted to be doing National Geographic documentaries instead and decided to take his frustration out on the audience.
This review of The Thin Red Line (1998) was written by Spencer H on 18 Feb 2017.
The Thin Red Line has generally received very positive reviews.
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