finnish finished

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 2004)

The review by our Finnish friend stated that "Americans, for all their good intentions in World War 2, were just as loathsome as the Nazis".
Now, one certainly can't argue that Americans (like EVERY nationality in history) committed war crimes. And it's true that there was segregation and we interred the Japanese. But to compare America to Germany which tried to invade and enslave several countries and put to death millions in death camps as well as other cruelties???
And SAVING PRIVATE RYAN didn't show Americans as perfect. I recall scenes of GI's shooting un-armed Germans trying to surrender. Another scene showed a GI telling his comrades not to shoot the Germans set afire by a flamethrower to put them out of their misery plus Upham's cowardice.......where in SPR are Germans shown in a poor light??? Steamboat Willie had his life spared and rejoined the German Army...was he supposed to say "Sorry, I promised the Americans I would sit out the rest of the war". The sniper shot Carpazzo....was he not supposed to shoot an enemy? And Carpazzo was not holding the child at the time so it's not like the sniper was trying to kill a child...so tell me where Germans were made to look evil and Americans were made to look perfect in SPR???