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Rating: 5/10 (18 March 2001)

The war drama definitely lived up to its nickname "Saving Comrade Ryan" in my eyes. After beginning with a great opening, from the soldiers arriving at the Russian docks and thrown directly into the battle - to the first semblance of battle on Russian soil, this movie takes and amazing downturn and never recovers.
In a movie about Russian and Germans, the last thing I expected was that all characters in the movie would have British accents (except Ed Harris who had an American accent). And if this was not bad enough, the film makers had to flaunt this on film by letting us know that indeed, they did not care about making this movie believable. Case in point: When Fiennes' character was dictating a letter to Law's character, Fiennes told Law how to spell something... using ENGLISH LETTERS. I can understand the use of the English language, so the audience could understand, but the least they could have done is made the effort to pretend they were speaking Russian, and either have told him how to spell it in Russian, or just scrap the scene.
Their are many more reasons, but I think these reasons alone make it a bad film.
One last thing. In a movie where suspense should have been so easily achievable, the lack of it is unforgivable.