'The Thin Blue Line' Errol Morris's documentary on the 1976 murder of a Texas police officer and the fate of its two principal suspects, is kind of the granddaddy of our current True Crime era. However the troupes of the genera presentation are now so set and ubiquitous, that the arty slowness of Morris's movie got on my nerves. It's a fairly basic piece of true crime, and it's a film that I should probably re visit at some point because the critical consensus is that this is a great, pioneering movie, and much of its substance is in its subtext rather then the crime itself. This first viewing however I give just **1/2.
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