"spr" sinks after the first half hour. - Saving Private Ryan Reviews

"Saving Private Ryan" is one of those well-meaning movies you hate to give a bad review, but sadly this movie is notable only for its opening 25 minutes of action as the American forces storm Omaha Beach amid blazing machine-gun fire on D-Day. Most of the battle scenes are strong with excellent visuals, but the final fight scene is disgusting to anyone with knowledge of WWII that is not corrupted by American propaganda. Movies with 'supermen' for American soldiers are not hard to come by, but they have no place in WWII movies that are supposedly based on actual events. Sadly, this could have been a brillant film had the producers attempted to give a more realistic ending than a patriotic one. Overall, this movie was very diappointing, and if 'SPR' didn't have the opening 25 minute battle scene of Onaha Beach (which pertains little to storyline), I would've given the movie a 'D-.'