I never thought I'd see Tom Hanks as Rambo

Rating: 7/10 (8 March 2000)

Without doubt, the opening scenes bring home some of the reality of just what it might have been like to be on the front line in a major assault during the Second World War.
Several individual scenes during the film are also equally well played and directed - all of which makes the John Wayne style gung-ho final reel a bit of a let down and the film as a whole rather less of the inspirational epic that I'd expected.
In a nutshell, if you were hoping for an up to date equivalent of "All Quite on the Western Front" forget it. It's a good action film but in truth really is no more intellectually stimulating than "First Blood".