Your reviewer is not correct right off the bat! (Small spoiler)

Rating: 10/10 (13 August 2013)

Erwin Rommel is hardly the one to blame for mistakes made by the Nazi's in the assumption that Normandy would be to blame for the landing there rather than at the Pas de Calais; that was the one thing that Ike Eisenhower and the command staff should receive great credit for all they did to deceive Hitler. Rommel is still characterized as the one of two geniuses in the Wehrmacht (the other being von Runstedt and his development of the Blitzkreig which was so successful in France and the beginnings of the fatal mistake of invading the Soviet Union. In fact, Rommel was convinced that just as in the Salerno invasion, the troops would come ashore in Normandy, and in so believing, he vastly made the invasion more deadly by increasing Normandy Beach hazards and in flooding the landing spots for airborne/glider landings. And this is a great film in spite of the fact that Tom Hanks simply has to play the very role of the great Hero, General Norman Cota, the eldest American on Omaha Beach and the leader of the breakout with such brave leadership and by using the rarely used Bangalore torpedoes to shatter the second strand of barbed wire and leading the troops to great valor with his leadership. My only regret about the film was the failure to credit General Cota somehow in the breakthrough to the murderous machine gun fire.