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The best war movie ever made
From the traumatic opening sequence to the sad ending, Saving Private Ryan is the best war movie available. Some people criticize the graphicness of the violence, but this is what the fighting of WWII was like. This movie is a realistic portrayel of the Normandy beach landing and the events after.

Saving Private Ryan uses totally authentic gear and weaponry along with an excellent cast. If you have any interest in a realistic WWII movie, be sure to buy Saving Private Ryan.



Great movie
for anyone that is looking at the reviews for this movie and you see one under 3 stars just skip it. I have seen very many reviewers saying that oh this story could never happen they would not send out a squad for one man well becuase i have the 60th aniversery adision on the bonus disk speilburg clearly states he found and article of some kind that said there was one brother out of four and his brothers died so they sent a squad out after him to send him home. So this moive did happen during WWII. and other complants are that the d-day intro is to short because it really lasted like 8 or 9 hours. well what did you people want spielburg to do make his movie 12 hours so the omaha beach sequence can be the right lenth. all in all this is a great film and it will be remember for a long time. buy it rent just make sure you see it

Great movie but still fictional
I had the benefit of doing a staff ride (field trip) to Normandy during my service in the Big Red One. Walking through the cemetary and battlefields really brought a sense of reality to what I saw in this movie. It is strange how places develop souls of their own.

We had a history expert as our tour guide and he basically did what he called the Saving Private Ryan tour. We went to a lot of different places that were shown in this movie as well as some others. The tour was truly invaluable.

The opening scenes of the landing at Normandy are agreed on by most reliable experts to be realistic and the best ever put to film. After that the movie is pretty much fictional and not historically accurate although the feel is still real.

The reason why I am docking 1 star is because of the scene with the crashed glider. The General that went down with this glider was a man of honor and truly a soldier's General. There is absolutely no reason to believe there was any special effort to protect his glider with armor plating. This is Hollywood garbage and was unnecessary. I put a stone on his grave as did many others to show my appreciation. He died in action like everyone else and deserves to be remembered only with honor and appreciation.

For a more realistic look at WWII watch Band of Brothers. These people were truly America's greatest generation and the entire world owes them so much. When France did not want to help us out President Bush should have sent Chirac a copy of this and B.O.B. and said next time maybe we will be too busy, order more white flags.

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