Another win for Spielberg!

Rating: 9/10 (15 January 2000)

This film ranks right up there with "Schindler's List", "The Color Purple", and to a lesser extent "Amistad" as Spielberg's greatest endeavor (from a dramatic standpoint). "Saving Private Ryan" is by far the best war movie ever made! The film displays a sort of in-your-face realism-which is probably the next best thing to actually being there. No bombastic music accompanying battle scenes here; the only music you'll get are from rifles and explosions!
I imagine people will be talking about "Saving Private Ryan" 50 years from now as being one of the great classics!
Rating: 10
Nitpicks (minor spoilers):
1.) The opening sequence shows old Ryan reminiscing about the D day landing in Normandy (as if he was actually there), but in reality, Ryan was nowhere near Normandy on D day; therefore, should the perspective had come from someone who was actually there?
2.) After releasing a Nazi P.O.W (to the protest of a few of his subordinates who wanted to seek revenge on for slaughtering one of their friends) Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) gives a nice speech on how killing a man makes him feel further and further from home each time, yet he doesn't take a second's thought when clipping a few Nazi goons in the final act. I guess Miller's philosophy is he doesn't like killing people, unless he has to!