Medic Wade: We stopped the bleeding! We stopped the bleeding!

Rating: 7/10 (6 June 2018)

Saving Private Ryan is a solid war film, with a quality story and a good lead in Hanks.
One thing you could always count on in Spielberg films is quality characters, but that isn't the case here. Hanks carries the film and while Ribisi, Sizemore and Damon's characters are good, many others are not. In particular Jeremy Davies's character Corporal Upham, downright awful. Not only that but action sequences lost to this character's perspective, hindering the film. The action sequences not containing Upham are of quality and the opening and ending moments of elderly Ryan are heartfelt, faltering in the in-between moments.
The scene with the three medics including Ribisi surrounding a wounded soldier's just hilarious. The idea of three men attending to one man who's wounded and not fighting's ludicrous, but then for the wounded guy to get shot more while they're attending to him cracks me up. Medic Wade: Just give us a fn chance you son of a b****!