Once again another good movie that is being WAY over rated.

Rating: 6/10 (15 September 1998)

I am glad I saw this movie and some elements in it tend to justify my anti -war attitudes, but it is NOT one of the greatest movies of all time. It might not even be one of the greatest Steven Spielburg movies. Raiders of the Lost Ark and Jurassic Park are definitely better, and Spielberg has made several movies that MIGHT be better like Jaws, Amistad, E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Schindler's List, and maybe more.
Saving Private Ryan is a good movie with some good qualities, and some bad ones. After how great I had heard SPR was, when I saw it, I was disappointed in the directing, writing and acting. I expected all of those things to be great and found the directing to be pretty good, the writing to be pretty bad and the acting to be mediocre. I'm sorry, but graphic war action which makes us think long and hard about many things is not enough reason for me to love this movie as much as so many other people seem to. And the emotional nature of 3 brothers getting killed in action and the attempt to bring the last brother home to his mom doesn't cut it either. Because quite frankly that's pretty much all this movie was about. It was a good movie, but that's all.