OK movie but way too classic

Rating: 1/10 (12 December 1999)

Now I'm doing something forbidden: I'm comparing this movie, Saving Private Ryan with the other anti-war movie released same year, The Thin Red Line, although it's two movies which are so much different because they're hardly in the same genre. I happened to see The Thin Red Line first in the theatre which was a tremendeous experience to me. After that I saw Saving Private Ryan and I thought it was a huge step down from the Terrence Mallick masterpiece about Guadalcanal which I'm afraid was released the worst time possible. I definitely believe that the succes of SPR has something to do with the Oscar winning director Steven Spielberg who's a certain winner every time. But I look at SPR as a way too classical movie with the classic white vs black scenario. Not much more than an easily digestive action film which has great effects and great action but nothing that gets to me like The Thin Red Line did it. Sorry, Spielberg.