Saving Private Ryan, almost a masterpiece.

Rating: 9/10 (14 October 1998)

Over the last 20-odd years Speilberg has provided us with some of the most memorable moments in the cinema. From Jaws through Close encounters, E.T. Indiana Jones and most of all Schindlers List. Now he has added another milestone, Saving Private Ryan.
This film in the first half hour must come as close to showing the full brutality of war as anything ever seen before. Despite an occasional soggy middle section, in the opening sequences he fully makes up for any short comings that the film may otherwise have.
With his track record now, I await the time when he makes his true masterpiece and ditches his more saccharine elements. In the meantime there is still plenty to appreciate.
P.S. I liked Amistad as well!