
U.S. Army Private Witt (AWOL) is found and imprisoned on a troop carrier by his company First Sergeant, Welsh.The men of C Company,1st Battalion,27th Infantry Regiment,25th Infantry Division have been brought to Guadalcanal as reinforcements in the campaign to secure Henderson Field and seize the island from the Japanese. They arrive near Hill 210, a key Japanese position. Their task is to capture the hill at all costs. What happens next is a story of redemption and the meani... (Full plot summary below)
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U.S. Army Private Witt (AWOL) is found and imprisoned on a troop carrier by his company First Sergeant, Welsh.The men of C Company,1st Battalion,27th Infantry Regiment,25th Infantry Division have been brought to Guadalcanal as reinforcements in the campaign to secure Henderson Field and seize the island from the Japanese. They arrive near Hill 210, a key Japanese position. Their task is to capture the hill at all costs. What happens next is a story of redemption and the meaninglessness of war. Regardless of the outcome.
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| Slant MagazineRob HumanickThe Thin Red Line's hallucinatory blend of images defines the very essence of cinema. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMichael NordineIn the midst of life we may be in death, but the opposite is true as well. |
| TNT RoughCutGraham VerdonOne of the most curious and perversely brilliant films ever made in the American studio system. It's a shining example of qualities we don't normally see in our big theatrical pictures: vast ambition, huge resources and technical genius mated to a unique and compelling vision of life. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaWords can only fail to accurately describe the challenging but wholly intoxicating experience. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleUnique and courageous. It may be counted as one of the year's few steps forward in cinema. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanHere is something great and startling -- not necessarily the kind of comforting, consensus-creating film that wins Oscars, but unquestionably a movie that will live in the history of the medium. |
| Looking CloserJeffrey OverstreetIt makes you think and ask questions. Its characters contradict themselves, talking one way, acting another. And it ends abruptly, with many things unresolved. Like life. |
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanThe disturbing ideas it plants in the soil of the soul need time and darkness ? not light ? to germinate. |
| Mr. ShowbizRichard T. JamesonIt's the awesome, metaphysically charged spectacle of man doing terrible things to man within the multicolored and multifarious cathedral of Nature. |
| Film.comJohn HartlCould be called the "Red Badge of Courage" of World War II movies. |