Trite over-rated tosh

Rating: 2/10 (25 August 1999)

After a realistic opening scene this degenerates quickly into standard cliched Hollywood nonsense - stirring music at moments of emotion, usual collection of stereotyped characters, trite sentiment - "Earn this". Hanks is totally miscast, other actors forgettable. Also, from this film one might think that the US won the war single-handed, no mention of the British, Canadian, French or Polish forces who were actually more involved in D-Day than the Americans.