A movie you won't remember tomorrow...

Rating: 6/10 (6 February 2003)

This is another movie in the long list of overrated movies here in IMDB. You know, war has always been a favorite subject for movies, because it generates intense emotions. These emotions are there de facto: Just imagine a seriously wounded soldier, screaming, covered in blood, surrounded by fellow soldiers with pain on their faces. You see, it can't be too difficult to generate emotions when the subject is war. And so does this movie, but not in any particularly original way. The most serious problem of this movie is its storyline, which you know from start to end if you read the following sentence: "A soldier has lost his 3 brothers in the war, and so we must find him and save him to soothe his poor mother". That's all folks. The rest is the typical adventures you would expect from a war movie. The same predictable results, the occasional conflict between members of the rescue team, and so on. We have seen all of this, and much better. The only reason this movie will get a 6 out of 10, is the very good (as usual) Tom Hanks. All in all, a great movie to see if you want to forget it in the next 10 minutes after "The End".