Saving private ryan - Saving Private Ryan Reviews

This is an amazing epic about 7 men on the job in France to pick up 1 soldier... The visuals in this movie are absolutely amazing. The recreation of the world war 2 fighting is amazing, especially in this opening D-day scene. It has great direction by steven spielberg! The story is pretty simple, but the action is phenomenal.. Ne one who liked this movie MUST watch Band of Brothers, the WW2 miniseries from HBO

Epic war movie - Saving Private Ryan Reviews

I love a good war movie and this is one of the best. The acting is superior, Hanks plays a great character. The storyline is great as well. It's definitely not for children or some teens due to graphic war scenes. But it just touches anyone who sees it. On the technical side, the sound and visuals are outstanding. Two thumbs way up!

A memorable movie that has the facts - Saving Private Ryan Reviews

Saving Private Ryan was a beautiful movie that I fell in love with. It is about 2.5 hours long and my first thoughts were "wow I can barley sit through Joe Dirt how will I sit through this". It wouldn't of been the same if the movie was short, I felt that I got the full story from begining to end...it was solid all the way throuh. If you don't like Glory movie, you should still see this. D-DAY was inteanse and messy but I am so glad I got to see this movie. It made me have mroe respect for Shoilders and it showed them as people...I loved some...amd hated others. I found my self yelling "OMG YOU IDOT SHOOT HIIM" when they would sit there. I am not in war but that is just how into this movie I got. It is based on a true story and Tom Hanks was great. I sugest everyone go and see this movie.

The good and the evil - Saving Private Ryan Reviews

The US flag, was waving both times, when the movie starts and ends up. Was it because they won the war? I suppose so. The movie was quite honest to perceive the brutality in all the soldiers, good or bad, doesnt matter. So, they were all killing each others only because they had indifferences. Who wins a war? May be the generals. But the loser party is humanity, the mankind.

Saving private ryan (a war movie like no other) - Saving Private Ryan Reviews

Savin Private Ryan is the best war film ever made. It describes and shows in graphic and well acted scenes, what our soldiers went through in World War II. Tom Hanks,Tom Sizemore,Edward Burns,Giovanni Ribisi, Matt Damon and many other actors in this film give oscar worthy performances. This is the one war film that you must see, if you haven't seen it already. Saving Private Ryan will entertain you like no other movie will.

No other war movie compares! - Saving Private Ryan Reviews

There are really no words to explain this, its that good! The extended battle scenes some lasting over 10 minutes are awesome! The visuals are also Oscar worthy by far! People and critics rarely agree but there are a few exceptions and this is one of them. No other war movie can even compare, not We Were Soldiers, not Black Hawk Down, not even Pearl Harbor! This movie truely deserves more than the 4 or 5 Academy Awards it got!! Recommended.

Has "saving private ryan" stood the test of time? - Saving Private Ryan Reviews

Imagine... Imagine a World War II story in which a squad of American GI's are sent on a rescue mission behind German lines to retrieve someone higher headquarters has determined to be valuable to the morale of homefront war effort, a mission they resent because they figure, is one really worth a whole squad? Imagine a story in which the squad, after braving the hazards of the enemy, reaches this person and discovers, much to their chagrin, that he would rather stay where he is. No folks, the story I just described is not "Saving Private Ryan" but is actually an episode of the TV series "Combat!" titled ?Missing in Action?, written by James S. Henerson and Sidney Marshall from a story by Birne Lay, Jr., which was broadcast on November 13, 1962 (and is now available on DVD). Granted, in this story the object of the squads mission is to save a bomber pilot rather than a paratrooper, but the basic themes are the same. Am I accusing "Saving Private Ryan" screenwriter Robert Rodat ("The Patriot") of palgerizing "Combat!"? No. But what I am getting at is that as time has passed and the horror and realism of the opening Omaha Beach sequence and final town battle has dulled a bit, the flaws of the derivative melodramatic script are becoming obvious. Consider: Why is the squad in "Saving Private Ryan" stereotypical characters? The New Yorker, the farmboy, the tough street guy, the mid western "new guy", the southerner. The differences of the characters should have come from their individual personalites, not stereotypes of where they are from. Captain Miller, combat experienced and very wise, goes against character to attack a machine-gun nest he could have easily bypassed. When one really thinks about it, this whole scene exists solely for melodramatic purposes and has no basis of reality. In fact, it's one of the most ridiculous scenes in this or any other film. It serves only to create some sort of Hollywood conflict among the squad, provide some exposition about Miller's backround, and provide an unbeliveable reason why the medic is killed. Why is that German machine gun there? The radar site in the backround looks inoperable. Why are they guarding it? Where are the support riflemen? Why are these two gunners alone out in the middle of nowhere? In one of the biggest blunders a combat leader can make, why does Miller leave clerk turned rifleman Cpl Upham to watch the equipment and instead take his unarmed medic on a frontal assault against a very dangerous MG-42 position? The reason? It was Rodat's clumsy way of creating a tragic situation. In reality, if Miller was really insistant on attacking that position, he still would have left the valuable medic behind and took Upham with him. That way when the action is over, the medic could tend to the wounded. Furthermore, Miller still had a long way to go until he completed his mission and it's almost certain he would need his medic later. After a savage struggle over a bayonet in the midst of the din of exploding shells, grenades, and earsplitting gunfire, I'm to believe that the victorious soldier is going to take the time to *slowly* knife his opponant? After a crazed, adrenaline fueled fight like that? I highly doubt it. Chances are the bayonet would have been plunged quickly into his adversary with no thought at all. Furthermore, any soldier would have raced to rejoin the battle and find cover, not leisurely walk down a staircase while cleaning his bayonet for dramatic effect. Several years ago I read that Spielberg improvised that scene to demonstrate how war brings the out the primordal man. The problem is that point was made in the intense first 20 minutes of the film so the scene is really rather redundant as well as melodramatic and unbelievable. A silverhaired paratrooper lieutenant in a war that was fought by GI's who were 25 years old and those over 35 were relagated to non combat duties? Although a fine actor, why was Ted Danson cast in this film? And I won't even comment on the fact that even Tom Hanks was too old for his role! No, in the opinion of this filmphile, "Saving Private Ryan" has not stood the test of time, especially when compared to the much better written and cast "Band of Brothers". With each viewing, it's flaws become clear. "Saving Private Ryan" is a cliche, sometimes unbelievable, uneven World War II story with the occassional great moment framed by some of the most realistic combat scenes ever filmed in Hollywood. A pity.