A Powerful Film

Rating: Null/10 (23 February 2001)

This is perhaps the most powerful, emotional film I have scene. I openly wept at various times in the film. We are shown the horrors of combat first hand. We get to know the main characters, and grieve at their loss.

I've just sat here and read the reviews posted before me and let me say this, many, many of you do not get this picture at all.
I have read people comparing this picture to T2 and The Matrix. Hey, I like A good sci-fi action film as well but that is far from the genre that is attempted here.
And as far as comparing this to Full Metal Jacket or Platoon (both good films in their own rights) this was a different time, a different war, with different politics. There is no comparing the two wars.
If you haven't seen it rent it, or buy it. Go into the past in THEIR shoes. Hit the beach with your fathers, your uncles and grandfathers on D-Day. Feel what it's like to be involved in a mission you don't agree with but have to continue on. Grieve for the death of a friend.
This movie is a tribute to all of the veterans of D-Day (god bless them).