Had potential, BUT

Rating: Null/10 (16 August 2007)

Im giving this movie 5 stars for its opening battle scene. It loses the other 5 stars for being too stereotypical and cliché.
First of all, the actors: All big name Hollywood blow-hards who have egos bigger than the movie's budget. Was Hank's character surviving the film because of Forest Gump's experience in Nam? And, oh my God, that lamoid Matt Damon...what a joke.
The characters, well did you know that EVERY German infantry soldier was a cold, heartless animal that held not a single ounce of compassion or humanity? Neither did I, but that's what Mr. Spielberg would like everyone who watches the movie to believe.
And what about the young American soldiers fighting this war in 1944? In the film they talked the way young people talk today. This can't get any more UNREALISTIC.
The thin, poorly written plot was just lucky that it was incorporated into film with spectacular special effects and incredible cinematography or else people would of noticed how thin and poorly written it was.
5/10