Two of my buddies went with me to see this three hour drivel. We all agreed it stank. We laughed uproariously at many of the scenes. First of all, John Travolta, George Clooney, and Woody Harrelson COMBINED are in this movie no more than ten minutes, Clooney for less than a minute. If The Thin Red Line is so great, why are these currently "hot" actors even in the film? Can't it stand on its own merits? In Saving Private Ryan the actress who plays the Ryan brothers's mother is an obscure actress, as is the actor who portrays General George Marshall, the most powerful American in uniform in all of WWII. The Thin Red Line could not stand on its own. Why do the voice-over narrations sound like hillbillies from the Ozarks? Were all the men who fought at Guadalcanal hayseeds from the South? The combat veterans of D-Day said Saving Private Ryan was very accurate but the vets of Guadalcanal laugh at The Thin Red Line. My own father was wounded and captured in the European Theater. He was a POW for four months and weighed under 100 pounds when he was liberated. He tells me that at no time did he wonder why he was shooting at Germans and would he meet them in the hereafter. The soldiers in The Thin Red Line (as well as the very overrated director) must have never heard of Pearl Harbor or the Bataan Death March. If the soldiers in our armed forces all acted like those in this incredibly stupid movie, the United States wouldn't be able to defeat Ethiopia. A terrible movie!!!!
Review of The Thin Red Line
