I was very disappointed

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2000)

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN is a terrible Steven Spielberg film! Usually Spielberg's films are very intelligent and demanding masterpieces but SAVING PRIVATE RYAN wasn't more than a gory bloody massacre! The Germans were again the pieces of scum, not worth to live. Films like STALINGRAD, DAS BOOT or PLATOON show us, that there are ALWAYS innocents and unscrupulous killers on BOTH sides! In SAVING PRIVATE RYAN the german soldiers are just the meat stock of the WW2. American soldiers are dying always a gruesome painful death, so the audience can really start to hate the Germans and hope for more scenes in which more Nazis get killed. The german soldiers were usual soldiers too, and especially in the last months of the war they didn't want to carry on fighting, but there was not a single sign that the Germans were humans too in the movie, they were just cannon fodder. For example: There was the standoff between the Americans and the Germans in the destroyed city. Every German got killed the Americans survived without any problems. It's painful enough that such senseless movies are still so popular in this time but the fact that SAVING PRIVATE RYAN is a Steven Spielberg film (hey, the man made movies like E.T. Schindler's List and Jurassic Park) is truly shocking! I think the movie was so much glorified because it was a Spielberg! If S.P.R. would be a war movie by a no-name-director it wouldn't be more than a second MISSING IN ACTION. (Please mail me your opinion)