Along With "Schindler's List", Spielberg's Best

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2000)

Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" is one of the those films that is a pure cinematic masterpiece. It's gritty, realistic, and well-made in every possible department. The film captured five Oscars and probably should have won the Best Picture Oscar for 1998. Some things about the film that really stick out are the cinematography (where approximately 60% of the color was faded from each frame), the editing, and of course Spielberg's direction. I'm not sure any other director working today could have done as well as Spielberg did on this picture. Tom Hanks is also excellent. He is one of those rare actors who can dominate a film without dominating it (in other words he's always there, but he makes the supporting actors better). In many ways this may have been his best acting job ever. All in all "Saving Private Ryan" is easily one of the top 10 or 15 films of the 1990s. It's a film that will be remembered for decades to come. 5 stars out of 5.