Missing the point!

Rating: Null/10 (14 October 1998)

This is in response to Tim's complaint about only seeing Americans and Germans depicted in SPR.
The whole premise of this film is to depict the horrors that Captain Miller and his men had to endure before, during and after they located Private Ryan, leading to the fundamental question at the end of the film, something about "earn this". You remember don't you?
The D-Day scene opens with a caption June 6, 1944. Omaha Beach Dog Green Sector. Although an Allied invasion site, according to my history books Omaha was an AMERICAN objective that resulted in over 2500 casualties.
Secondly, the mission was to locate an AMERICAN Private. I doubt that England, Canada, Austrailia or ( fill in the blanks with country of your choice ) would commit troops to locate a lost American. As far as Russia is concerned, most of them were busy on the Eastern Front. While the Americans were traipsing through the countryside, they were heading toward areas where they knew Americans may be, i.e. 101st Airborne rallying points, while at the same time trying to avoid armed conflict with the enemy.
I'm sorry if you were insulted by the lack of representation of other Allied troops, but again this film was based on a real American soldier, ( who was actually tracked down by an Army Chaplain) not a British, Canadian or Australian.