Oscar for best picture, you must be joking!

Rating: 5/10 (2 November 2009)

Yes, the opening beach scenes are very dramatic and mighty, quite moving, but the actual story is sentimental and corny. The worst thing for me, though, by far, was the final scene in the cemetery - this isn't a spoiler because the film has been out for so long now anyway. Ryan's final salute and words of gibberish don't go anywhere near, in my opinion, expressing the depth and profoundity of the experience. It's so sloppy it actually makes you want to vomit and I question here why Spielberg, at the final moment, allows the superficiality of nationalism to take precedence over humanity. It's as if Spielberg is saying Ryan is first and foremost an American before he is a human being.