An attempt to more political correctness, but disappointing

Rating: Null/10 (12 February 1999)

Undoubtedly, the success of this movie in terms of awards and nominations stems from the cliches of the "let's make everyone aware of the horror of the war", etc. Although this may be a very altruistic objective, it does not imply that the movie has a good story or that the script is artistic or even clever.
The story line would have been more suitable for a TV show like Combat or MASH rather than for a full-blown three-hour movie. It seems that the whole objective of the movie was to depict with extreme realism the Omaha Beach situation and to do so the movie makers had to find some movie plot, regardless of what it might be. In fact, despite of the absolutely incredible vividness of Omaha Beach, I started to get really bored - Mr Spielberg seemed to exploit that ad infinitum. Same could be said of the bridge battle.
Following the same political correctness track, the way that Germans are depicted is unfair, at least. There was a clear intention in the movie to show the soldiers are traitors and sanguinary (e.g., the knife scene), where the Americans where all nice and warm (e.g., the kid, who was a translator, full of love and care).
Overall, I was quite disappointed by this movie. After watching it, it really made me wonder on what basis Globe/Academy awards are given - may be on the "technical" quality of the movie and their PC bent but certainly not on the grounds of its cleverly designed script and plot.
This movie falls miles behind other realistic movies about the war such as Apocalypse Now.