An excellent movie, period...

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2016)

First off, I liked this movie. Spielberg went the distance to create the real pain and terror of war with this panorama of death and bloodshed. The twenty minutes of Normandy footage is the most realistic I have ever seen, They cast real people with lost limbs to show how battles are carnage, not pretty scenery. Also, without making it obvious they showed how the invasion was completely thrown off track with airborne drops way off the intended marks. Simply put, the detail is authentic for every minute throughout the movie.
Certainly, Saving Private Ryan was never intended to be a documentary. The individual plot is, of course, total fiction. Yet the plot is, and never was, the focus of the movie. The focus rather, is the individual honor that comes from deep within the human psyche, the fear and anger that was prevalent through the ranks. This is a movie about us in a way...