'haunting' does not begin to describe the effect of this WWII epic.

Rating: 9/10 (15 April 2005)

During the second world war, a selected group of U.S. soldiers is sent to bring back a comrade who is stationed behind enemy lines. This man's brothers have been slaughtered on D-Day, and he is being sent back home.
The plot is noticeably silly. in war, especially THIS war, high ranking officers would not send a squadron out to retrieve one man who holds no vital information about the enemy. Nor would they send squadrons out to retrieve men whose blood has been slaughtered.
But It is not the plot that drives a person to see a movie of deeply realistic and harrowing violence. A person watches this movie to go back in time. Many people (thankfully) will never have to fight in wars, and therefore would never know the true meaning of terror.
"Saving Private Ryan" is said to have been the most accurate war picture ever to be created. Watching it is almost as close as fighting a real war. you are with the countless men who are destroyed when the U.S. storm the beaches of Normandy. You sit through all of the personal conflict among soldiers. You witness the emotions change and tempers flare. And most of all, you experience a time warp.
A movie crafted this well is a true gift; a piece of entertainment that is so well done that it makes us forget that we are sitting at home watching a movie with Hollywood actors. This film will become your world. as terrifying and depressing as it is, it will become your world.
****/****