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So, you decide that you need to watch something, because you haven't watched many movies in the last few months, and it's time to catch up, otherwise you'll be 30 in no time. You choose a 3-hour war drama? That's a bit much, but who knows, maybe the movie is worth it. (the movie is not worth it) The Thin Red Line (1998) What a load of crap, God, why? In the same year, "Saving Private Ryan" was filmed and released. They even have almost the same runtime, just a minute difference! But Ryan is a benchmark for war movies and a great film in its own right, while this is just an amateur director's pointless attempt to focus on the VISUALS. A separate rant is needed on why focusing on visuals in film is a cancer, so let's just break down the movie. The movie about war starts by showing us natives with bare butts and penises and how they live. Against this background, a white man contemplates with quotes by Jason Statham. Then (actually, after 40 minutes, that's how fast the plot develops here) we see the war itself - a bunch of Americans run and die like sheep, not even having time to see the enemy, and an old colonel yells at them, telling them not to slow down the offensive. Is this an insult to veterinarians? Okay, you think the movie is about the horrors of war and the incompetence of the command. And then the next scene - and a squad of 6 Rambo-like soldiers easily destroy dozens of Japanese soldiers and take the height. Seriously? So, for the director, soldiers are either sheep at the slaughterhouse or super-soldiers who win the war single-handedly? What the f***. The staging of the battle scenes here is terrible; of the characters, I only remember one - the colonel, and I'm not talking about "remembering after the movie," no, I was watching the movie and constantly couldn't figure out who was who, who had problems with his wife, who lived with the natives, who they even were. Well, in general, it's about 3 hours - constant quotes about life, death, and just nothing, a few "battle scenes" in the middle, and that's it. And of course, the VISUALS, although there is no achievement in filming landscapes - I say this as a person who recently returned from Altai. Don't watch it under any circumstances, spare yourself, and at the same time, give meaning to my suffering.