flag waving

Rating: 6/10 (7 January 2003)

Poor old mister Speilberg. He was so upset when he did not win the Oscar for this movie. Well if he stop shoving the American way down everybodys neck then maybe he would have done better. Those flag waving scenes at the start and end were some of the worst bits of judgment when it came to directing that I have seen for many years. Next time he should watch "The Thin Red Line" to see how not to be all happy about the cruelty of war. He seems to think that just he stuck a graffic scene in near the start then it was a true and honest account of war. Get real . If he had just let go of the emotional cord it could have been so good.