America, stop spending money to get Damon home :)

Rating: 10/10 (18 October 2015)

The movie starts off with an epic opening scene. In this scene Captain Miller and his squad have to take over the beach. During this 'invasion' two brothers are killed. Their third brother is also also killed of, but in New Guinea. After they have taken over the beach, Captain Miller and his crew get another task. They have to find private Ryan. The fourth brother. He is the only remaining brother, so Miller has to get him and bring him back to his mother. It turns out to be harder than they taught.
"Saving Ptivate Ryan" is directed by Steven Spielberg. He did an amazing job at directing this movie. He did something special, he made it seem like the main characters stood out. It looked like they took a black and white movie and colored it in, it gave a pretty effect. The cinematography was also perfectly handled. Janusz Kaminski has worked a couple of times with Spielberg, I get why Spielberg had chosen him as the cinematographer. The opening scene (with this I mean the opening fight scene) was just shot amazing. Every shot was just stunningly beautiful. The set design look realistic, The effects in this scene were flawless. You were tense, even though you didn't got the chance to know the characters yet. Everything was fantastic. The realism of the movie was also good. When the camera goes under water in the beginning scene, the sound mutes. This really makes you feel like you are there, with the soldiers. Also, still when the camera is under water, when the bullets hit the water, they slow down and you can see the path that they make through the water. When someone takes a grenade, and they explode, they literally blow up into peaces, you can see body parts fly everywhere. What is also good about this movie are the effects and Make-Up . In the movie there is a lot of gore. And when someone loses a leg or a piece of their skin and there intestines are shown, it is in the movie, it looks so real. And after the first battle sequence the camera flies by the battlefield, and you can see all the dead body's and the water, that has become red of the blood of the soldiers, this was a very touching scene.
The acting in this movie was also very good, everybody did their best. Lets star of with the main character. The main character is Captain Miller, played by Tom Hanks. Miller is the Captain of his squad, a little bit further on in the review i am going to talk about the squad. He is a broken man due to the war, but there is one thing that keeps him going, completing the mission and to keep his squad alive. Someone else from his squad is Caparzo. He is played by, believe me or not, Vin Diesel. I really didn't recognize him. I was surprised that it was him, he was so good in this movie, I just couldn't believe it. There is also Jeremy Davies he plays Upham. He was also very good. You can really see how afraid that he is of war. Wade, the medic of the crew, is played by Giovanni Ribisi. He was good too. And when he dies, there follows a painful silences and that was hard to watch. Not because it was a bad scene or something, no, it was just such a sad moment. There is also Mellish, played by Adam Goldberg, he was good, nothing special about him. And Horvath is played by Tom Sizemore. When he died at the end I didn"t feel sad, and I don't know why. In the squad there is also Jackson. He is played by Barry Pepper. He was a very skilled sniper, and it was shocking to see him die, when he got blown up. And last but not least, Matt Damon. He played Private Ryan, the soldier that Miller has to get back home. I liked his character a lot he is a loyal friend, who is not willing to leave his crew behind. This covers most of the characters, I am sorry if I have missed one, there are a lot of characters in this movie.
The writing of the movie was handled perfectly. There were funny bits. But that doesn't change the mood of the movie, it keeps it's darker tone. You could really feel the friendship of the crew and this was due to the good writing. What I also liked about the writing, even though this does not relate much to th writing, is when Miller goes away to cry. This was a powerful scene, and gave the character a more relatable person, it made him feel more real.
The part that i loved a bit more than the beginning fight scene is the final fight scene. I loved watching how they prepared themselves and the bridge for an upcoming attack. The whole 'Bridge' scene is just so tense full. And when they finally attack, you just start screaming at your screen, because Upham, doesn't dare to do something. Becaude of him some characters died, that he could have saved. But when the battle is over, and he has his gun pointed at some German soldiers. He recognizes a soldier. It is the soldier that killed Wade. When Wade was killed they let that soldier go, but first they are planning to kill him. Then at a certain point Upham says 'what is happening' when they want to shoot the unarmed German soldier. And I think that he means with this what happened to us, how war has changed them, this is a positive thing. But when he holds the gun pointed at the German soldiers, he pulls the trigger and kills the man, out of revenge. Also a powerful scene.
The ending is beautiful. I would recommend watching this movie.