Inhumanity brought to life to save humanity

Rating: 10/10 (1 July 2005)

D-Day. Operation Overlord. What we say here cannot do justice to what they did on that day. Tom Hanks and his patrol must recover Private James Ryan before his mother gets her fourth flag delivered by an Army chaplain. It all makes perfect, illogical sense to kill many to save one.
After surviving the Normandy landing, Hanks is volunteered to put his men in the line of fire again and again. Just to save one man.
Or is it?
A bridge is saved, a town is secured, a bigger battle is won..All because Hanks saved one shoe for one horse...
Beautifully realistic to make the atrocities of war invade, assault, and overpower all five senses. You feel the bullets whizzing past your head. You see the man looking for his arm after it was blown off is shoulder. You smell the burning hatred for the Nazis as one US soldier yells to his comrades "Don't shoot them..let them burn."
It is too much to watch..but you have to see it.