Great, but not amazing.

Rating: Null/10 (29 July 2004)

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Now, I wasn't alive in 1944. However, I had family on pretty much all sides of WWII, and some were actually in the concentration camps, so seeing movies like this are a big deal to me.
I loved the movie the first time I saw it. I could spend 20 minutes on describing the opening sequences alone, and have while ranting to my friends about it. It was gory, and desensitizing, and everything a war film should be--showing so much violence that in a way it becomes an anti-war film, in that it also shows the consequences of it. Anyone who has an interest in history and WWII should see this, and also Band of Brothers, another Tom Hanks/Stephen Spielberg project (and one that I found a little better then SPR).
**** stars out of *****