utter junk

Rating: 2/10 (23 July 1999)

This movie is such typical Hollywood crap-ola, and Tom Hanks and Matt Damon are unbearable. The opening sequence is excellent, giving the viewer a real sense of what WWII and Normandy/D-Day must have been like, Tom Sizemore is also outstanding, and of course the cinematography is beautiful...but this movie really cheapens the concept of war and heroism IMO.
Having personally walked the beaches of Normandy, and having a father whom is a WWII veteran, I can say that this film is a glorified and poorly told "fiction" of what these boys really experienced. Thin Red Line is far more watchable (despite Nick Nolte's presence) for a WWII pictorial. Don't bother with this one.