This film did make a difference.

Rating: 8/10 (27 January 2002)

If Saving Private Ryan did anything it changed the way film makers looked at war. The graphic detail of the deaths and wounding of the Americans on Omaha beach showed what it is really like to get shot, you don't get back up.I for one can not stomach another John Wayne film where a man gets hits with a bar stool and gets up like there is nothing wrong, you don't. Any new film you see now is judged and by 'Private Ryan' and possibly 'Glory', and so it should be. Do not trivualise violence in films. Take a long look at what is happening in the world today and see it's effect.Forget the plot but thank god for Spielburg.