Tom Hanks outsmarts Col. Klink

Rating: 2/10 (25 March 2001)

Tom Hanks and Co. sneak across battlefields to bring home the titular private, while staying one step ahead of Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz.
This has to be the most over rated film in recent history. The Germans are portrayed so flatly that they may as well have saved money on actors and used cardboard stand-ups. But check out how kind hearted those U.S. soldiers are! They spare the life of an enemy!! They risk a dozen men for the life of one, who may not even be alive!! What?? Are these tears on my keyboard as I type this?
This film is one that *appears* to be portraying humanity at it's lowest and highest...but in reality it is a sham, perpetrated by a Spielbergian wizard, pulling his levers behind a curtain of propaganda. At it's best, this movie is a pro-war advertisement masquerading as patriotism for humanity. At it's worst...well, look around, you're soaking in it.
I'd refer anyone who is interested to read Howard Zinn's essay in his book "Howard Zinn On War". He talks a bit against this movie in a way I could never do, because he was there.