A great film

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 1999)

Saving Private Ryan is a great picture - no doubt about that! Even though I think there's room for better yet. The first bit is wonderful realistic and I like seeing someone who at last shows the battle scenes more or less as they where. However it is not as choking as I would have thought by the reviews. It lacks the final shot of realism and the element of chance or coincident.
Now chok in these pictures is of course important. You simply have got to go out the cinema either before the ending or with a really bad taste in your mouth! We owe that to the ones who fought and died! And so this film was not "violent" enough! What about the random shootings on the beaches, the lacking accidential killing of fellow soldiers or at least a more sombre ending. Not this more or less happy ending which unfortunately is becoming a Hollywood trademark. But it is a fine movie...........................