All about human values in the backdrop of a war

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2002)

This movie is not just about the war. It is more about the human values and how different people have different ways of valuing life. All this is set at the backdrop of the world war. Tom Hanks as the captain does not hesitate to kill enemy soldiers for his country. On the other hand, he leads his team to find one man because he believes that this job earns him the right to go home. The war is shown exactly as it is in the battlefield. Some of the scenes are gross but real. Tom Hanks and Matt Damon (as Ryan) deliver extraordinary peformances. The sniper in the team who prays to God before shooting his victim, the corporal who fires only one bullet in the whole movie have their own ways of looking at the war and also on their individual roles in the war. Overall, the movie is excellent. The absolute reality of the war as shown in the movie makes us think if anything good really came out of the whole war!