War movie unlike any other

Rating: 7/10 (18 March 2008)

Saving Private Ryan
By Daniel Rosado
Directed: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel,Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Matt Damon
Saving Private Ryan is movie about a captain and his men going on an unusual mission to retrieve a soldier and send him home. This movie takes place during World War II, and is quite different from other war movies you might have seen in the past.
When you first see Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks), he's trying to invade a beach with other soldiers dying all around him. Everywhere you look there's a soldier either being shot through his helmet or someone blowing up. Medics, such as Irwin Wade (Giovanni Ribisi), desperately try to save the soldiers, but many of them also get killed. When the first battle is finally over, you see dead men of all ages, some missing limbs, you also see the water near the beach has turned blood red.
Miller and the survivors (Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies) of his crew are later on given a mission to find a Private Jason Francis Ryan (Matt Damon), and send him back home to his mother. His three brothers have recently died and he was the last of the Ryan boys.
Private Richard Reiben (Edward Burns), along with the other men, feels that risking their lives, to save one man is very unreasonable. But no matter how much they complain about the mission, Miller tells them that it's their job to complete it.
When they do find Ryan, (the real one) he refuses to leave. He said that his comrades were his new family and he wasn't going to abandon them. But Miller wasn't taking "no" for an answer, he decided to have his crew help Ryan complete his final assignment. All of the actors put on good performances for the movie. They really did seem like the type of people you would see go to war. And when one of them would die, you wouldn't feel like "There goes another character dying", you would really feel what the soldiers felt when they would lose a comrade.
Saving Private Ryan is movie unlike any other you might have seen in the past. You really do see what the real soldiers had to endure during WWII, and why you honor them for what they did.
3 out of 5 stars