Silly plot, you say?

Rating: 10/10 (6 October 1998)

I've read some comments on the plot lacking believability, so I feel it's imperative that I inform you plot junkies that the events depicted in Saving Private Ryan are based on historical fact. The US government did, in fact, attempt to prevent the destruction of entire familial lines, and in many cases, the only way to retrieve those personnel was to send out small units to track them down. The fact that some find the events depicted in Saving Private Ryan incredulous merely reinforces the superb nature of the structure and content in this film.
This was hands-down the best war movie I've ever seen. I wept buckets at the end--afterwards finding myself walking around my beautiful city, comparing it to the ravaged French landscapes presented in Spielberg's masterpiece. How fortunate my generation is to have been spared such a calamitous sacrifice, and how trivial all of our concerns are, when contrasted with the tribulations faced by all those who witnessed or served in the wars of generations past.