The Thin Red Line | Kirk Acevedo, Penelope Allen

The Thin Red Line | Kirk Acevedo, Penelope Allen | Pretentious and Slow Moving...But Amazingly Poetic

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The Thin Red Line

	The Thin Red Line Kirk Acevedo, Penelope Allen 20th Century Fox, 2002 average customer review:based on 929 reviews view larger image
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The Thin Red Line

Eye opening. No Idea our troups had to fight that hard for that insigmificant piece of real estate. It really showed the horrors of war and how crazy brave our men were.
God Bless Our
troups!!!

Pretentious and Slow Moving...But Amazingly Poetic

Terrence Malick is a legendary filmmaker, probably because it takes him at least 10 years to make a movie. This is (I believe) is 2nd film and his first since "Badlands," which came out in the '70s. This movie came out in 1998 and was nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. Problem is, when you're up against another war epic (Saving Private Ryan) and a movie about Shakespeare (Shakespeare in Love), then you're probably not going to get either one. This movie got great reviews, but some audiences still give it lukewarm praise. It's difficult for them to swallow, because it's not a typical guns blazing-get right to the point war movie. It takes its time and moves at a snail like pace and never really reaches the conclusion that some moviegoers wish for. The movie boasts an amazing cast however including Oscar Winners Adrien Brody (Best Actor, 'The Pianist'), George Clooney (Best Supporting Actor, 'Syriana'), Sean Penn (Best Actor, 'Mystic River'); As well as Oscar Nominees John Travolta (Best Actor, 'Pulp Fiction'), Woody Harrelson (Best Actor, 'The People Vs. Larry Flynt'), John C. Reilly (Best Supporting Actor, 'Chicago')...Oh and Jesus (Jim Caviezel) is in it. As well as John Cusack ('The Ice Harvest'), Nick Stahl ('Sin City'), and Jared Leto ('Lord of War') among others. The movie is basically told through the eyes of several different characters and a lot of voice-over. The movie opens with Witt (Caviezel), an AWOL private merely walking around an Island pointing out some things for the viewer. When his ship shows up, he gets back into his battalion, which is ran by Welsh (Penn). Anyway, eventually they all get off the boat onto an island and spend the rest of the movie there fighting a war. With all the actors, there's way too much detail to go into. Except, oddly enough, despite all these big name actors...Many of them are in the movie very little. George Clooney is in the movie for about two minutes and he doesn't show up until 2 hours and 37 minutes in. The main characters, for a while, are really Caviezel, Cusack, Elias Koteas, and Nick Nolte. And they just kind of float in and out of the story. Anyway, the movie is very poetic and the performances are solid...But the thing with Malick is, you either love him or you hate him. I have to fall into the middle category, I see what he's doing and I respect it...But, sometimes, I find it dull and unamusing. This is, technically, a great movie. But it's not for everyone.

GRADE: B-

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