My favorite movie of all-time.

Rating: 10/10 (4 January 2005)

This is a masterpiece. I love war movies, but this one beats them all, hands-down. Not just for its graphic, realistic depiction of being in the middle of battle, but also for the incredible characters that are developed, and the quiet, intimate moments, where a soldier's sadness, loneliness, depression, and fear all start to kick in. If you've seen "Platoon", "Full Metal Jacket", "The Thin Red Line", "Casualties of War", "Hamburger Hill", "We Were Soldiers", or any other war film, you need to see "Saving Private Ryan". It is the war movie by which all others will be judged for a very long time, maybe even forever. There are no words that can do it justice. This is the only movie I can give a "10" rating to, because in my mind, it literally is the perfect war movie in every sense. You will not be disappointed.