very good (not great) movie

Rating: 7/10 (4 February 2000)

This is a very good flick; the acting is quite good (even a surprising performance from Matthew Broderick), the war scenes are probably the most realistic save for Saving Private Ryan, and the movie is reasonably historically accurate, though I believe it downplayed the way the black soldiers were treated by their white contemporaries.
The other qualm I had about the film was its over-sentimentality towards the main characters, especially during the battle scenes, which was a chronic problem throughout the movie.
7.5 out of 10