Spielberg kind of film

Rating: 8/10 (12 March 2003)

The beginning was shock. Bullets of enemy's machineguns tearing soldiers
heads away while they are about to go enter Omaha Beach, the notorious
beach for US soldiers. The cameraman really lived through all that, I thought. I have seen a quite a bit war films, but the chaotic, inhuman, and horror are not strong words enough to describe the beginning of the movie.
Spielberg did a good work, I must say, what comes to describing the actual war, what it's like. Also, following his style, he steers clear from judging things. However, soon the movie lose it's tracks. Yet it seems to be historically accurate and it's interesting to watch as a historical epic story, the moral set of the movie starts to taste strange. Indeed. And the composition in the beginning when the old mr.Ryan is squatting on the graveyard, and folks are behind, that composition is VERY Spielberg.
That's afterall the best thing in the movie, but also it's the thing what makes this movie feel like a bit unfinished. Also, the movie reminded me too much of
"Green Mile" which was a kind of inmature description now that I think of it. That's the thing of Spielberg movies, they get everyone inside in the first sight, but soon they abandon the audience, leaving them wander helplessly into
chaos of unclear and muddy world or moral questions. Kubrick's world is more
clear in that sense. Anyway, good movie, well worth of 8.