The most brilliant war movie ever to be made thus far

Rating: 10/10 (2 September 2008)

Forget Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter Saving Private Ryan is the best bar none. The acting is monumental and the action is even more so. From it's gruelling cinematic opening through to it's profound ending, Saving Private Ryan delivers on all sides of excellence. Tom Hanks is compelling as Captain John H. Miller. Hanks hasn't portrayed anyone quite as captivating since his 1994 Oscar winning success in Forrest Gump.
The visual concept is staggering and undeniably excels anything in the war genre. Praise to Spielburg though for giving audiences a tragic look inside to the horrors of war and its various other hellish topics.
Cudoes to Saving Private Ryan's raw beauty and magnificence in re-creating the bloodiness and nightmarish abyss that was war. This being said, Saving Private Ryan is the best war film simply put and its visceral grit and substances shine boldly among others.