Just 2 battles, where's the story

Rating: 1/10 (15 October 1999)

What a poor film, it just consists of two very long battles with a weak plot linking them together. I didn't relate to the characters and didn't care that Tom Hanks was a teacher. So the battles were graphic and show the horrors of war in detail, but this doesn't make a film.
May be my history lessons were wrong, but I thought that there were more countries on the allied side than just America.