Nothing new.

Rating: 4/10 (26 December 2009)

The movie had incredible special effects and entertaining scenes, however the movie is full of half-truths, lies and propaganda.
Truths: There was a US, British and Canadian led invasion of Normandy France in June, 1944.
Lies: There was no Private called Ryan who lost his two brothers, however there was a Airbourne soldier lost for 18 days behind German lines, however he rescued himself after walking into US lines, no one set out to rescue him and there was no giant battle in the fictional town of Ramelle.
Propaganda: In this movie (besides the opening scene in which hundreds of US soldiers were slaughtered on Omaha Beach) the average US soldiers kills 50 German soldiers, gets shot (falls over dramatically in slow motion with stupid opera music playing), then pulls out his pistol and kills another 50 Germans and then dies dramatically saying something stupid like "Tell my wife I love her". In this movie a platoon of 20 US soldiers, takes out 100 German soldiers, 2 Marder IIIs and 2 Tiger tanks with improvised weapons like wet-sock bombs and Molotov cocktails. Real history accounts SHOW that this never happened! If your into entertaining and action packed War movies THEN THIS IS TOTALLY YOUR THING! A great movie! However 98% inaccurate when it comes to history.