Title: I wasted 3 hours of my life
Product review: First off, the cinematography was excellent and the cast was unsurpassed. Aside from several great sequences in the film (not all of them where action sequences), the film dragged its feet. There was at most 2 hours of redeemable film stretched out to 3 hours. Malick has a vision in this film, almost "Apocalypse Now" like vision, showing the motivation behind each character. That part is not the problem, telling the emotional and mental pain soldiers go through while at war is a wonderful goal. Unfortunatly that goal is not met in this film. One of the problems is Malick tried to do this with too many characters. At times, I had no idea which charatcer was narrarating. The short scene with John Cusack is the most exhilarating scene in this film and the best one I've seen in quite awhile. Overall its a good film if you want to study human behavior in time of war, but not if you want a war film. It's not about war, it's about soldier's reaction to war.
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