Spielberg's continuing downslide

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 2001)

Contains Spoilers It may be fashionable to trash popular films, but I try to make it a habit only to trash truly bad ones. Such is the case of "Saving Private Ryan", one of the worst best picture nominees in recent years(alongside "Gladiator" which won the award). What makes it so bad? How do I count the ways. The twitching finger of Jeremy Davies. The incredibly bad soliloquy delivered by Private Ryan(Matt Damon). The stupid decision (POSSIBLE SPOILERS) of Tom Hanks and Co. to let Private Ryan have his way and stay and fight off the Germans in spite of all the crap the team went to in trying to locate him. The German who threatens the life of Hanks and Co. and then when they decide to let him live he comes back to haunt them again. What are the chances of having problems with the same psychotic German twice when there are so many other enemies lurking about? What about the ending of the film which makes no sense?(Think about it-Private Ryan couldn't be remembering everything that happens in the entire film, he wasn't even there during DDay, at least we didn't see him. Spielberg continues his sad slide after "The Lost World" and "Amistad". Hopefully "AI" was better.