Review of The Ninth Configuration

I really don't understand the high ratings for this movie. I expected to like it, with its great cast (Stacey Keach, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Scott Wilson) and screenplay by William Blatty of Exorcist fame. The movie concerns a group of Vietnam veterans who have suffered mental breakdowns being confined to a psychiatric hospital in a castle-like building in the Pacific northwest. There is no discernible story here. Basically you have several patients running around saying random things under the eye of the psychiatrist. Nothing happens that in any way resembles a plot. I felt like I was watching the dreadful "Mosquito Coast" in a mental hospital setting.the movie goes nowhere, and after a half hour you'll be bored out of your mind. I actually gave this movie another chance the other night (yes, iI wasted $20 on the bluray) I could only stand to watch another fifteen minutes before popping the disc out.Terrible film. Avoid it at all costs