Simply... Great!!

Rating: 9/10 (14 April 2005)

Saving Private Ryan is a great WWII movie. It was one of the first movies in an ever-growing ultra-realistic WWII accounts. Being an avid WWII history buff, SPR gives me an insight into what it was like to be on the beach at Normandy. Hanks and Spielberg really show their concern for detail in SPR and their later work, Band of Brothers. I would have given the movie a 10 if is wasn't for the poor performance of Matt Damon. Damon comes off as a whiny little snot nose. The director should have caught this and worked it out as it is very distracting. Some people, especially of late, have said this film is too graphic to show on TV. However, I really feel this is a film that does not make gratuitous (sorry for the spelling) use of graphic images. That is what it looked like and it should be shown like that. Every network shows the warning before they air the movie and so we should all be smart enough that if it's too much, FLIP THE CHANNEL! Don't complain that it was too graphic when you were warned. A movie as realistic as this is going to be graphic which adds to the impact it makes. Watch this movie, you'll enjoy it.