Great starts don't always finish first

Rating: 5/10 (18 July 2003)

While the first twenty minutes (or, for you pedantic moviegoers out there who are going to jump on me for being six minutes off in my assessment, the length of the first scene) of this movie is a brilliant "chaotic and harrowing battle scene", there is nothing else in the movie that even comes close its poignance. The rest of the movie follows in the footsteps of every other trite Spielberg drama. I think that people are too afraid of besmirching the face of any movie that deals with WWII to be honest about films such as this. The subject matter does not make the art. It American audiences are unable to make such a distinction.