Movie Review: Thin Red Line

Thumbs down.

Let's be clear: this isn't a war movie.  In two and a half hours, there was ONE battle.  Not a single shot is fired for the first 35 minutes.

If it's set on Guadalcanal during WWII, features American soldiers, and isn't a war movie, then what is it?  It's a collection of beautiful shots of a tropical island, with philosophical musings of various soldiers in the platoon.  They talk to each other, and they talk to themselves.  It's slow, plodding, and frankly boring.  Thank God I watched it on video so I could keep hitting the fast forward button.

This is the biggest disappointment since Gods & Generals.  And yet the critics loved it.  Somewhere up in heaven, Ayn Rand is smirking and saying "I told you so."