NICE MOVIE. GREAT WAR SCENES

Rating: 7/10 (28 November 1998)

This is a 'nice movie'. But there's something that makes this movie a 'nice movie', instead of a 'bad' movie: the war scenes. The first 30 minutes of the movie might be the best 30 minutes of the year, and one of the best 30 minutes of the film history. It's incredible. Those images are an inspiration for moviemakers, those minutes are a filmmaking lesson. Those bloody, disgusting, violent scenes make everybody get shoked. I mean, you're in the World War II. You feel you're there, It's an incredible masterpiece... But that's it. It's over. One of the greatest films ever stops just there, thirty minutes after the film starts. The rest of the movie does not 'fit' with those 30 minutes. Or I'm afraid that I should say those 30 minutes are the ones that don't fit the movie. It's like as if Spielberg had made that scene just for saying "hey, see how violent and disgusting I can be?. The rest of the movie might be made for the people who were born in USA. And since I was born in Uruguay, I didn't like it at all. Because the Americans are always the 'good guys', the only ones who have feelings. Why didn't Steven Spielberg take a look at the Germans? Weren't they afraid too? And what about the last shot of the movie, that American flag?. Hey, I like American people, I really do, but this movie just make them say "Hey, I'm proud to be an American. My country is the best country of the world." That might be true, but there's something called modesty...