A different kind of Comment

Rating: Null/10 (26 September 1998)

Well now - what is that? There seem to be hundreds of comments in here that label this movie "best film ever".
What I saw was: a thin story, once again "good heroic Americans" who did "the right thing" (well - occasionally accidentally shot an enemy who already had his hands up - but that can be blamed on the adrenaline flow it seems), faceless soldiers on the "other" side which made it easy for the viewer to concentrate solely on the "good guys". No. This was NOT a good war movie. This was once again a Hollywood product designed to feed the American myth of having died for "the right cause". The final salute to the Captain at the cemetery fit nicely into this picture - I almost seemed to hear "The star-spangled banner"!
At the most, this was a movie asking the question why several people had to go rescue one other man. But an anti-war movie? No way! Schindler's List was a movie with many different aspects to think about. Saving Private Ryan still distinguishes between "Americans" and "others". As if the soldiers on the other side didn't die just as horrible. Ah - but I forgot: you save a German, he'll be back later to kill you, so you better execute him the first time. Is that what can be learned here??