WAR, huh, what is it good for?

Rating: 1/10 (20 March 2001)

This is one of the single worst films I have ever seen. Spielberg was, once again, intoxicated by his own sense of patriotic splendour. The first major flaw in this film struck me the first time I saw it. I was in the theater and began to ask myself, "How could Ryan remember the D-Day invasion when in fact he was never there?"
Now, honestly, how did Spielberg expect to get away with that one? It was never explained or followed up in any way. Secondly, how did he expect to get away with portraying the Germans as mindless, blood-thirsty grunts? "Well they were, weren't they?" says the blindly patriotic american. This aspect of the film is a disgrace to Germans and more importantly to the brain-washed americans. Finally, I would just like to point out the fact that this was not a war to rescue individual men in order to preserve their family line. This film makes a mockery of WWII by completely misrepresenting it. The only aspect that was accurately portrayed was the violence, which sadly enough drew many people to the film. Two thumbs down!