Greatest war film ever made!

Rating: 10/10 (20 May 2020)

Sure you've got Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket and all those other war flicks, but this film is much deeper and explores the war more seriously, not only is this the greatest war movie ever made but it's also my second favourite film of the 90's (#1 being Schindler's List) the fact that this also feels like it could be a documentary on the actual WW2 because of how realistically it is made and how terribly horrific the world war really was. Tom Hanks' role feels so realistic and so believable and he's such a lovable guy.
We start off with the Omaha Beach scene which is shot so realistically (which you will hear me say around 50 times) and the amount of deaths and blood in this scene truly is scary and is truly the reason why Spielberg is such a great filmmaker and why he is absolutely my favourite filmmaker of all time! The score gives me goosebumps and is one of John Williams' best, unlike other war films, it doesn't dumb down in the second and third act, instead, I believe, this film has the greatest second and third act I've ever seen! Spielberg does not shy away from the results of war and the impact is has on society and human beings as a hole. If I literally had a tear jar for how many times I cried during this movie it would be full and overflowing, this film has one of the greatest ensemble casts ever and I'd be lying if I said Hanks' performance outshines everything else in the movie, because the greatest performance in this film is the war and how it is portrayed.
It is based on a true story of four brothers, 3/4 of the brothers had been killed on battlefield and one of them is still alive, however, the mission is not as easy as it seems, first of all, imagine the grief of the mother and the misery she would be going through if she found out all of her sons had been killed, which means she has to have at least one to survive. There are some subtle moments of comedy which could be used to brighten the mood, but it still never shies away from the fact of how bad war was.
The film gets more depressing and terrifyingly believable as it goes along, they come across another Ryan, James Frederick Ryan from Minnesota, but they're looking for James Francis Ryan from Iowa, then Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) and Sergeant Horvath (Tom Sizemore) have a conversation in a Church about some kid back where they used to live and talk about him, I guess, to try and brighten the mood, they tell stories and go to sleep for a while before going for another trip to find James Francis Ryan.
Another one of his guys had just been killed off by a German, Captain Miller decides not to kill him, "Because every man I kill makes me feel further from home." They eventually find Private Ryan and tell him about the tragic deaths of his three other brothers, they say he can go home, although displaying an emotional response at first, Ryan still wants to fight the war, saying he doesn't wish to abandon the team. The third and final act is sad to say the least, all the characters we loved earlier on in the film end up getting killed in battle, we are now back to Omaha Beach style war.
Great movie