Ordinary men Great deeds

Rating: 9/10 (2 March 2005)

This film is brilliant because it trys to get as close to realism as is possible and we need films like this every now and then to show us what went on in a different time . For me its the ending not the start that makes it although that start is unforgettable and brilliant but also devastatingly terrible .But the one thing that I marvel at is that men did that I cannot imagine where guys found the bravery to run up a beach and return fire in the face of that devastating machine gun fire .
The one message that I think the whole movie conveys is one of ordinary men going to war and changing history the way they did for me the whole movie is summed up by Tom Hanks admission that he is a school teacher to put this in perspective think back to your old school teachers can you think of one of them who you would think capable of doing what his character did during this film or what the others did are any of us capable that is questions that this movie asks of us all while at the same time giving us the answers about a small part of war .
Everybody should watch this movie as it is seminal and it does bring home some very stark realities if you don't like it then maybe you should continue to watch old John Wayne movies where the bullets bounced off of people and soldiers on the Allied side ran through enfilading fire without any of them getting hit.
One day I hope Speilburg and Hanks collaborate on either a story on Okinawa , Iwojima American stories or Maybe Kohima a British and Indian story all 3 of these particular battles were all murderous in their own way and also It would bring to light a forgotten war because WWII did not just happen in europe