Best war movie ever made? Not even close...

Rating: 7/10 (25 April 2002)

I watched "Saving Private Ryan" the other for the third time hoping I could find it better then I did the first two times. I got nothing. The only things about this film that are worth mentioning are the battle scenes and the acting. Everything else about the film is badly done, I didn't care about any of the characters, I felt nothing when they died because I wasn't able to get to know each character and understand their feeling of the war. They (the soldiers) were just there and did nothing but talk and talk and talk. The film is dull and badly written. An excellent war movie is one with great acting, a great plot, great battle scenes, great direction, great dialog, and likeable characters. This movie only has good acting (not great), good direction (not great), and great battle scenes. It lacks everything else needed to make it a great war movie. This war film is not the best ever made, it doesn't even compare to better movies like The Thin Red Line, Black Hawk Down, We Were Soldiers, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Platoon, and All Quiet On The Western Front. If you want to rent or buy an excellent war film that won't bore you half to death then get any one of those films that I just listed. With them you can't go wrong, with Saving Private Ryan you go wrong.