Forget the message, only enjoy the show

Rating: Null/10 (22 July 2017)

That's not the greatest war film ever, if you only consider the message, the topic. It remains very classical, American, patriotic and so on. I guess Nolan did not really care about this line, he only used it to support the rest, I mean the astounding, mind blowing show that glues you to your seat. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN was a real mile stone in the war film history; I mean there was a before and an after PRIVATE RYAN, concerning the graphic violence, not the rest, of course. This Nolan's movie is the same, it will remain another mile stone in the war film history. You have to see it yourself to perfectly understand what I mean. I don't remember any war feature like this one, technically I mean. And I want to add something else. The editing, the story telling reminds me some dramas and film noirs, showing different characters whose fates finally collide. I have rarely, if not never, seen such schemes in war movies.
This is a must see, for visual reasons, and certainly not ideological. That's why I prefer CROSS OF IRON, which, I admit, was totally different from this one. The purpose was simply not the same. The Peckinpah's film was an anti war feature, the best ever. This one uses the war to show some new technical stuff. Forget the message. You have already seen it thousands times before.