Dissapointing

Rating: Null/10 (11 March 2001)

Technically speaking, this film was practically flawless. The combat scenes were well shot, almost too realistic, and gave you the feeling that you were actually witnessing a real battle. Despite that fact, I simply didn't like this movie. I kept trying to convince myself to like it, but I just couldn't, and here's why: although well-made and well acted, it failed to actually draw me in emotionally and make me care about what happened to these characters. Perhaps Spielberg was a little bit too preoccupied with making the battle scenes realistic, or maybe there's just something wrong with me, I don't know. That's not to say that the film didn't have it's good points. I really enjoyed Barry Pepper as the sharpshooter who quotes Scripture while preparing to kill the enemy. But that was about it.