The most important film I've ever seen.

Rating: 10/10 (5 August 1999)

This film made me consider the sheer brutality and terror of warfare in a way I had never done before. It did this by placing me in the middle of the battle while at the same time enjoying the comfort of a cinema seat. I realised in a way I had never accepted before the horror of the D-Day landings, and the courage of each and every man who didn't just lie down and play dead as soon as they (and if they) set foot on the beach, which is probably what I would have done.
It made me think in a way that no other film has done. I cam,e away reminded of the sacrifice that was made so that we can live in freedom today. It reminded everyone that WWII wasn't the neat and tidy war that it sort of gets remembered as. I was moved to tears, and I'm not even an American (the Brits landed too, by the way).

But that small issue aside, this film made me think more than any other film has ever done; not just a war film, but any film. It is, to me, the most important movie ever made.