one of the most intense movies of all time!!

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 1998)

If anyone sees this movie and doesn't come away with an awed feeling of what our Fathers and Grandfathers endured to secure our way of life they will never be moved by anything. I have been to countless movies in my lifetime and never have I witnessed such silent devotion as the audience was leaving as for this film, and sprinkle in a few gray & bent old men with tears in their eyes and as I said, it was awesome!!
The scene where Mrs. Ryan collapsed on the porch at the approach of the military vehicle was without doubt the most poignant and revealing of the entire film. Makes you know how horrible it was thousands of times for families during the war and I have never seen it portrayed better. If this film, Tom Hanks (who nevermore will be thought of as Forrest Gump), and Spielberg don't all win Oscars they might as well discontinue it for it would be meaningless for any other to receive it.