Title: Ambitious and honest in it's effort, but ultimately flawed.
Product review: Obnoxiously ultra-cool Collin Ferrell is miscast as John Smith in Terrence Mallick's 're-make' of his earlier The Thin Red Line. It is hard to identify with Ferrell's character because he's just so perpetually GQ. Jim Caviezel is a perfect non-Collin Ferrell.The stakes were always very very high for this film however, because the subject is just so extremely pivotal and it's never really been put on screen before. Ultimately, I felt let down. It was lacking, and I felt a 'human' presence in The Thin Red Line which I didn't feel here. The Thin Red Line was muddled in many ways, but in many ways it triumphed. The New World is just muddled in many ways, period.My opinion of course.
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