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amazing, painfully real war movie
This movie is amazing in every way. It is however very graphic, but I believe this is what makes this movie so powerfull. Today it's all about action movies and it's easy to get caught up in the shoot em' up action flick and forget that wars and death happened and still do today. This movie shows a great deal about how soldiers were affected during the war. It shows how stressed out they got and how they had to deal with unbelievable fighting conditions. This movie really leaves you feeling sad but also amazed and thankfull for the people who fight for our country. Great film All-star actors A+++++

A terrifically powerful film
"Saving Private Ryan" is probably the best World War 2 movie ever made. The cast is excellent, and the cinematography unparalleled. The use of the hand-held, filtered camera during the battle scenes brings Capa's D-Day photographs to life. The story is simple--eight men are sent to find another soldier behind enemy lines--yet powerful by that very virtue. It is full of brilliant cinematic moments, such as the segueway after the horrific opening D-Day sequence: The screen goes blank for a second, and we hear the layered sounds of typewriters clicking like machine guns as Army typists write next of kin letters...Raindrops falling, then falling faster and dissolving into the sound of gunfire...
Throughout the film, we are shown many aspects of combat: the depersonalization which occurs in battle (Hanks' Captain Miller staring paralyzed at the carnage around him on the Normandy beach for a moment, then stoically replacing his blood-filled helmet); the tragedy of a single death (Giovanni Ribisi's Wade calling for his mother as he dies--the most realistic and moving depiction of death in cinema, to me...); heroism and cowardice. The music is great, the characters vividly drawn, the historical details perfect.

Steven Spielberg made this film as a tribute to his father, who served as a radio operator in the Pacific theater. His first film, made when he was thirteen, was a war story (in which he was allowed to use real airplanes at a nearby airbase for some of the shots). He'd been thinking of making a big film like this for a long time, and it is rewarding to watch.

The horror of war on a wonderful DVD!
It is ironic that today's youths, myself included, happily play computer games based on the events in this movie, and somehow fail to realise that this really happened.
Saving Private Ryan depicts a company in the US Army during WW2 venturing deep into unprotected line to recover a soldier who's three brothers were all killed in action. It is a confronting film, as the soldiers must deal with homesickness and the death of their 'brothers' within their company. What you see will shock and scare you, but ultimately will give you a look at the horrors of war.
Tom Hanks is brilliant as Captain John Miller, a smalltown school teacher turned war hero, and the actors who play the soldiers in Miller's company are unforgettable. Perhaps most memorable is the performance of Jeremy Davies as a cowardly translator thrown into the frontline, as he faces his greatest fears while in combat.
Saving Private Ryan is an incredible film, which will stay with you forever as we who never witnessed the horrors of World War 2 develop a greater understanding of the most important battle of the 20th century.
A wonderful DVD, full with Spielberg's touching reflection on D-Day (6/6/1944) and interviews with men who were there in France when these events really happened. A must have, and one to watch so that you gain a greater understanding of what war is really like.

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