 What is the film reviewer's main critique of Zaillian's performance?
War and Pieces No movie in the last decade has succeeded in psyching out critics and audiences as fully as the powerful, rambling war epic The Thin Red Line , Terrence Malick's return to cinema after 20 years. But Malick, a certified intellectual and the Pynchonesque figure who directed Badlands and Days of Heaven in the 1970s and then disappeared, is in a different philosophical universe from Steven Spielberg. He speaks the movie's epitaph, "Darkness and light, strife and love: Are they the workings of one mind, the feature of the same face?
 Viewers can easily anticipate the conclusion of each scene in the film
 He takes too many liberties that cause the film to deviate from the real-life outcome of the court case  Viewers can easily anticipate the conclusion of each scene in the film  He relies too much on director/mentor figures within the same style  He makes the same mistakes as Schlichtmann in getting distracted by unimportant details