see this for the beach scene

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 1999)

See this film for the first half hour thats all and while your watching it keep thinking to yourself 'not too long ago this actually happened'. Forget the crap in the middle for me that ruined the film cause the brutally realistic and horrific beginning just went downhill into sappy cliched hollywood stuff. I dont think Spielburg pulled this off as well as he could have. Its all very patriotic to america making out like they were the only ones fighting the war. No other nationalities apart from the Germans who are very cliched in this film very evil and cold blooded not human at all which even though they were on the opposite side they were human too just like the americans. I thought the way they were portrayed was very bitter and if youre going to make a good anti war movie you have to get across the message that war is futile and affects and hurts everyone not just one nationality that is why it is so pointless. The film is visually raw and bleak like it should be but i think the storyline flaws it too much and spielberg could have done a bit better.