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After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist Terrence Malick disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in 1998 with this visionary adaptation of James Jones’s 1962 novel about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal. A big-budget, spectacularly mounted epic, The Thin Red Line is also one of the most deeply philosophical films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, a thought-provoking meditation on man, nature, and violence. Featuring a cast of contemporary cinema’s finest actors—Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, Milk), Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides, Affliction), Elias Koteas (Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), and Woody Harrelson (Natural Born Killers, The People vs. Larry Flynt) among them—The Thin Red Line is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the experience of combat that ranks as one of cinema’s greatest war films.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ s_medR R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches; 4.8 Ounces
Audio Description: ‏ : ‎ English
Item model number ‏ : ‎ CRRN1933BR
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 50 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ September 28, 2010
Actors ‏ : ‎ James Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Kirk Acevedo, Penelope Allen
Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003KGBIRA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Aven

A Cerebral Masterpiece

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2017

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Most war movies encapsulate run-of-the-mill plot lines and human trivialities, but The Thin Red Line departs from the bleak and overly commercialized blockbusters that most film-makers produce these days. The movie is less of a story about World War II and more of a Freudian analysis of conflict in general. In the movie, many soldiers struggle to face the bombs and explosions raining upon them. Some men spit with rage and throw temper tantrums while other men forget who they are. On the other hand, there are a few men who are loosely tethered - yet sensitive - to the events around them; they may be scared, confused, angry, or entirely indifferent to the noise around them, but they have an unshakable grasp of their surroundings. This small demographic is one of those psyches explored in the movie, but it is the most focal group.

The movie follows the intermittent musings of a calm and deliberate man aptly named Private Witt. As he traverses brush and jungle foliage, he vaguely relates prior experiences to the events he experiences on Guadalcanal. Other soldiers share similar reminiscent instances throughout the movie as the Americans push against the entrenched Japanese forces. Each soldier's recollection offers a meaningful examination of war and humanity. The memories and revelations do not add anything particularly truthful to the actual events at Guadalcanal or even anything universally truthful (depending on one's point of view, to be sure). However, the stories are incredibly insightful and engaging for a war movie. The acting is believable, captivating, and inspiring. The movie also features a long list of great actors, including, (to name a few), Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, John Cusack, Adrien Brody, John Reilly, Nick Nolte, Miranda Otto, Woody Harrelson, John Travolta, and George Clooney.

There are other WWII / war related movies I enjoy, but The Thin Red Line is the most substantive and compelling war movie I've ever seen. If you want to watch something that can transport you between a battlefield and a calm ocean-front beach, this is the movie for you.

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R. Custer

waste two hours of our lives

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2019

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This was at the top of a list of 30 war movies. So we had to see it. I appreciate some movies need to move around to create the art, Inception. Dang I walked out of that movie holding the railing. Some people have a negative opinion of the USA and our service men and women. I doubt most of them will like this movie. This is a pointless movie that disrespects our soldiers and jumps all over the place. The soldiers are all presented as cowards or promotion seekers. To writ, the third most popular search on this movie is "What is the meaning..." You could not find enough bad apples in a Division of soldiers to have these characters. The same list had the Piano player on it. Go watch that, or Hacksaw Ridge, Schindler List, The Guns of Naverone, anything else probably.

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philip werner

Film making at its best.

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2017

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I am a VN combat veteran and that colors my take on war films. I see them, but I tend not to like them.
This one is special. I love this movie's combination of poetic reverie and the extreme violence of WWII combat in the Pacific. Fabulous cast and brilliant directing. Not to be missed.

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Long, but rewarding WWII epic set in South Pacific

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2017

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It's a World War II platoon movie, but unlike either the postwar "guts and glory" movie or the more recent "anti-war war movie," this one has the daring to head out on its own and succeed. Set on a Pacific island still in the hands of the Japanese, Terence Malick's feature presents both the act of war (seizing the island) and the moral by-products of war. A terrific cast including Jim Caviezel, Elias Koteras, John Travolta and George Clooney -- truly, stars popping up all the time. My favorite actor in this movie, though, is Nick Nolte as an embittered lifer, too young to have seen action in the prior world war and too old to make much of a difference in this one. THE THIN RED LINE takes patience, but it's worth it.

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The Most Brutal War Film!

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2019

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Terrence Malick’s war epic The Thin Red Line (1998) utilizes its behemoth cast of stars and Malick’s own words with his directorial vision culminating in a harrowing ordeal. The Thin Red Line makes a convincing case for the death of all war as men lose their lives, minds, rationale, kindness, empathy, decency, and humanity during the conflicts brought about by war.

I should warn viewers The Thin Red Line is nearly 3 hours of horrific murder and defeated attitudes. I have to hand it to editors Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein for editing down Malick’s intimidating war masterpiece to a highly coherent 2 hours and 50 minutes. It may turn off some audiences with its slow burn pace and grisly violence, but I found The Thin Red Line riveting in its thoughtful messaging and gripping in its suspense driven warfare wherein an enemy can pop out of the tall grass of the Pacific Islands at any moment.

Terrence Malick’s direction is pensive and focused. He relies on heavy narration from the perspective of various leading characters that deliver enthralling voice work conveying their sorrow, misery, and dejection during World War II. Malick’s writing is poetic in form and complexity. His dialogue is written in eloquent phrases that essentially mean war is a self defeating institution wherein both sides inevitably die gruesome pointless deaths. The Thin Red Line elevates action into a display of pain and shocking intensity that is sure to bother many viewers. Malick explains all the suffering with beautiful words full of reflective sentiment that deliver upon the film’s promise to give a new perspective on war’s traumatizing effect on soldiers.

Hans Zimmer’s score for The Thin Red Line is a blaring loud, constantly pounding, sonic throb. Zimmer composed some of his most minimalist sounds, yet the atmospheric pressure that his score brings to The Thin Red Line is undeniable. You know that an ambush can come at any time during the quiet moments, then Zimmer’s music soars into hearing and assaults you with massive blasts of adrenaline that are as deafening and explosive as the air strikes in The Thin Red Line.

John Toll’s cinematography for The Thin Red Line is timeless. He captures the natural beauty of the rain-forest as well as its quiet threat wherein any foe can appear out of nowhere at any time. Toll films cute animals in the surrounding area to offset the numbing violence sequences that are sure to follow and shock. Malick’s film-making technique is also on point for The Thin Red Line as a majority of the film utilizes long tracking shots that sweep a location with a magnificent panning technique. The incessant gunfire, mortar fire, grenade explosions, and soldiers screaming scar the cinematic safety net of the screen. All the violence, combat, and trauma flies out of the screen like shrapnel. Toll’s steady camera work is what forces you into the perspective of a soldier crawling around a rain-forest or a grassy hill, paranoid the enemy’s forces are about to descend upon you.

The Thin Red Line’s impressive ensemble cast is nothing to scoff at as every character is portrayed by a superstar. In particular, Jim Caviezel is engaging as the conscious stricken soldier of mercy. Sean Penn is remarkable as the jaded and realistic soldier with experience. Caviezel and Penn’s chemistry as friendly soldiers with opposing opinions is absolutely fascinating. Elias Koteas is amazing as the highly moral and ethic captain that refuses an unthinkable order. Nick Nolte is fierce and fearsome as the commanding officer that gave such a heinous order. Jared Leto is brave and cautious as the soldier that sends his men out of the grass, getting them riddled by bullets. Lastly for the main cast, Adrien Brody is paranoid and afraid of the danger engulfing his every step.

Furthermore, Miranda Otto is dreamy as the loving wife of one of the soldiers, who writes her husband a “Dear John” letter in one of The Thin Red Line’s most devastating moments. Ben Chaplin is inspiring as the positive thinking soldier dreaming only of returning home to his wife with a sullen revelation. John Cusack is sad as the soldier that realizes his leader is crazed beyond what he can cope with and his men are doomed. Woody Harrelsen is commanding as the tough sergeant, who meets an embarrassing and upsetting end. John Travolta makes an appearance as a confident brigadier general. John C. Reilly is a neat foil of apathy at the end for Sean Penn’s resolute soldier. Dash Mihok is fantastic as the deepening insanity descends upon his soldier. Tim Blake Nelson gets a few funny lines, whereas Thomas Jane gets a content soldier of inevitable apathy towards war makes him quit in a great sequence alongside Sean Penn. Even George Clooney makes a cameo at the end as the newly appointed captain to lead this regiment.

To conclude, Jim Caviezel, Elias Koteas, Nick Nolte, Adrien Brody, and Jared Leto all deliver outstanding acting performances. However, Sean Penn is my favorite character in The Thin Red Line because you know where his character stands from the beginning. Penn finds a contemplative persona for his deeply reflective and bluntly honest character that I found riveting to the last. His face alone reveals a worn acceptance for the trauma and loss that comes with war. I think The Thin Red Line may contain Sean Penn’s finest acting.

In short, I urge you to trudge through the muck and misery for a transcendent experience unlike any other war film. The Thin Red Line will wear you down until you are emotionally spent of all joy.

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Keith M

This Great Evil - Where's It Come From?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2014

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So questions Jim Cavaziel's Private Witt in Terence Malick's epic 1998 film, in the aftermath of his unit's attack on Japanese forces during the battle for the Pacific island of Guadalcanal during WW2. With The Thin Red Line, Malick had returned to film-making after a 20-year break and whilst, for me, his film is not an entirely successful venture, it has many compelling moments of 'sublime' beauty and horror, all overlaid with Malick's trademark poetic (and frequently philosophical) touch. Indeed, Witt's quote, in which he is actually questioning humanity's place (or perhaps, value) in the world - given war's savagery - follows one such sequence of cinematic brilliance, as the private's unit overrun the village, as Hans Zimmer's haunting theme builds in volume and John Toll's camera (which is visceral and dynamic throughout) help to provide a truly mesmerising few minutes.

Of course, Malick's decision to return with a 'war film' (albeit imbued with his unmistakeable sensorial touch) was always going to provide a challenge, given the plethora of great 'anti-war' films already on the books - Kubrick's Paths Of Glory and Full Metal Jacket and Coppola's Apocalypse Now to name but three. And the man certainly gives it a good go - his 165-minute work being essentially one of three sections, topped and tailed by some reflective passages, which sandwich the film's hour-long centre-piece as, under the command of Nick Nolte's outstanding turn as the reckless, glory-seeking Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Tall, C-company attempt to 'take' a fortified Japanese hill-top bunker. Of course, this sort of thing has been done many times before in cinema, but Malick (and crew) deliver a brilliantly visceral and exciting sequence, during which (acting-wise) Elias Koteas shines as the concerned, self-doubting Captain James Staros, whose reluctance to undertake what he regards a 'impossible mission' puts him at odds with his superior.

Outside of the film's centre-piece Malick gives us a beautifully ironic opening as Jim Caviezel's (also excellent) AWOL Private Robert Witt is returned (forcibly) to his unit from his idyllic Melanesian island existence and sets the scene - of largely confusion and futility - for what is to follow by repeated (and probably overdone) voiceovers. His opening also sets up one of the film's key messages around the negative effects of war as, following the conflict (having come full circle), a young 'native' is reluctant to meet Witt's offered handshake. Similarly, Malick repeatedly contrasts the film's 'humanity' with the (external) forces of nature as (again, coming full circle) a crocodile is eventually `strapped up' - as well as including shots of butterflies, toucans, chickens, owls, bats, monkeys, etc.

In addition to Messrs. Koteas, Nolte and Caviezel (for me, the film's outstanding performances), the film also boasts Ben Chaplin, Sean Penn, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Adrien Brody and George Clooney in its (probably unnecessarily) star-studded cast, between them delivering fine turns (Chaplin, Penn) to mere cameos (Clooney). I found that the film was certainly overlong (by at least half an hour), but, at its best, was brilliant (poetic, poignant and, of course, tragic). Malick also delivers a poignant ending (albeit its tragic element is fairly predictable).

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Da Vazquez Paluch

One of the greatest war films ever

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2013

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I still remember when I saw this film in the cinema. Me and my boys came out and we were just silent and thinking, because that's what the film makes you do: think.

Although it's a war film with plenty of action scenes, it's more than just an action film. And even though Saving Private Ryan won all the plaudits, Spielberg is Britney Spears compared to Terrence Malik's John Coltrane. After all, Terrence Malick was a philosophy lecturer whereas Spielberg's greatest achievement is entertainment movies like ET and Indiana Jones.

The Thin Red Line brings out the strengths of Malick. War, risk of dying, forces you to ask big questions: How do I look at the world? Who do I really trust? Who do I really love? How do my personal ethics affect the reality I'm living? Each question has multiple answers. The film kind of revolves around the reflective Witt (Caviezel) who can see beauty everywhere and quietly tries to live according to his ethical code in the midst of the war. But in reality the film is not about Witt, but about attitudes to life and ways of living in the world, represented by different characters.

The cast looks like an A-Z of great Hollywood talent: Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Woody Harrelson, John Travolta and George Clooney. But it's Jim Caviezel as the aforementioned Witt, Elias Koteas as the Greek Captain who quotes Homer, and Ben Chaplin as the hopeless romantic who are the stars of the tim.

Seriously, an amazing film. Worth watching and enjoying. And the soundtrack is pretty amazing too.

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L. Clarkson

Amazing film about war in the South seas.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2013

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What I love about the film is the juxtoposition of the beauty of the world the horros of war are taking place in.
The film is about the human spirit. It is a beautifully shot film. A thinking persons war film.
You see courage, fear and sheer stupidity all here. Mercy and acceptance and forgiveness are also here - which is unusal for a war film.

It's different. It's beautiful. I watched it recently after I was first captivated by it in the cinema when it came out. I still found it to be a great piece of cinema.

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Great purchase

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 31, 2021

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The Thin Red Line [1999] [DVD]

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2011

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quality film. often being overlooked due to its release alongside saving private ryan, malik's masterpiece draws on ensemble cast to tell the realistic tales of various soldiers during the pacific conflicts in WW2. this film should not be watched if you're a fan of a particular actor, as each spend very little time on screen. instead, sit back and enjoy the wonderfully filmed epic for its whole worth.

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