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Rating: 9/10 (3 August 1998)

All the other reviews have pretty much summed up how great a movie this is. An instant classic. So I'll just add a few of my own thoughts. This is a must-see movie for a GOOD THEATRE with GOOD SOUND if you want to appreciate the battle sequences. The surround sound puts you right in the middle of the battle with explosions all over the place and bullets whizzing by to the right and left. See it in the theatre with the best sound system possible. The D-Day sequence is one of the most brilliant movie sequences ever filmed. This is Spielberg's second greatest film: Schindler's List is still his most powerful. And this is probably one of the best, if not the best, war films. The only other one that comes close is Full Metal Jacket, which is more disturbing but not as comprehensive or as emotionally involving.
As far as the gore and violence, it's intense and brutal but is not nearly as bad as most gory horror films; it doesn't even come close to the Day of the Dead/Dawn of the Dead movies, but it's a completely different kind of violence. It's very real, not fantasy or comic-book violence. I think most 12-year old kids can handle this, and I think most boys 12 and up should see this film, since it will show them a glimpse of what real violence looks like, and maybe counteract the kind of stuff they see in Armageddon and video games.