Better than "Schindler's List"? Jeremy Davies did make me cry.

Rating: 9/10 (28 October 1999)

"What?" people ask me, "You liked Saving Private Ryan Better than 'Schindler's List'?"
There are many reasons why I feel "Ryan" is a superior film.

First look at it from the technical aspects. These include Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, Lighting, Set Design, and so on and so forth. Don't get me wrong, "List"'s technical aspects are great, (that breath taking black and white cinematography) but "Ryan"'s are just superior.
Now look at it from the acting point of view. "Ryan" is not only a great technical movie but an excellent acting film too. I'm not talking about just Tom Hanks alone; it was the supporting characters being lead by Hanks that really did it for me. And Jeremy Davies as Corporal Upham, when he kills that German, that is one of the three times I've cried in a movie. "List"'s acting is very good too, but it is so many people that it is hard to get attached to a character. "Ryan" had a nice concentration of excellent performances, and you came to identify with all the characters that didn't die in the first scene.
This got ten out of ten stars for me.