A candidate for the most overrated movie

Rating: Null/10 (28 January 1999)

This film has variously been described as the "Best War Movie" and as the "Best Spielberg Movie". Those who describe it thus can only never have seen another war film or another Spielberg film.
Except for the D-Day landings, which are amongst the most graphic war scenes ever seen and which should be compulsory viewing for all those who believe "the old lie, Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori," it is long and drawn out. It fails to ignite an emotional rapport with the audience who sit as bored voyeurs wishing they were elsewhere.
While it is as not as gung-ho as some films and for this reason cannot be rated the "Worst War movie ever," it can be rated the Worst Spielberg ever. It is not worthy of the person who produced many wonderful films right from Duel up to Schindler's list.
The tragedy is he will probably win an Oscar for it.
2 out of 10.