War sucks

Rating: 10/10 (3 July 2000)

From very impressive opening scene, and through entire movie, Spielberg forces only one message - war is dreadful beast which consume everybody and everything it lay hands on. Taking the beach on D-day, in this movie, is one of the most bloodiest scenes ever recorded on motion pictures. Shocking scenes of destruction and killings are very strong and horrible; for example scene where Nazi kills a American soldier with a knife in a house, where Nazi talks to him on German, and American shouts:"Stop! Stop! Wait! Wait! Listen to me! Listen to me!", is very lifelike, and it's not classical Hollywood scene. Or sniper. Or tanks. Or...everything. The idea of film is very noble - I don't know is this action ever take a place, but fact that many brothers, fathers, children...died in that monstrous event before 60 years is scary...over 50 million people have been killed.
You really have to earn something in your life, as Ryan did... Then you understand the importance of life itself.