Kitsch-berg replaces Capra-corn

Rating: 1/10 (22 August 1999)

This movie does for battle scenes what Raiders did for action movies, but between the battles it's the same old sickly sentimentality and kitsch Speilberg-isms we are accustomed to. The Speilberg suspense-arc is easily recognized, giving SPR the feel of Poltergeist with Germans rather than ghosts, and E.T. with a kid from Iowa rather than a kid's toy. Positively tiresome.
The interminable length results in a whole lot of a bad thing...