God Bless America

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 2000)

This movie has extremely high production values. Superb direction, great acting,magnificent special effects are all present here.It is only the script that is lacking.The story is contrived and slight with sentimental and unrealistic dialogue.The opening thirty minutes are breathtaking and the movie is well worth seeing for this sequence which is one of the most convincing battle scenes on film.However, the rest of the film,while good, is just too long.Black marks to Steven Spielberg for his unsympathetic portrayal of the German soldiers.Generation after generation of American film-makers have portrayed the Germans as cruel people in war movies.I would have thought a director with the distinction of Steven Spielberg could have seen the German Army from a more human perspective.It was not only US soldiers who suffered in the war.Despite the realism,this was another movie where America and good ol' American values win the day. This is one movie that suffers on Video and TV.Ideally should be seen in the cinema to get the full effect