Imazing... and American

Rating: 9/10 (21 August 2007)

This movie starts with the most intense scenes of all time. It just takes you there and makes you bite your tongue. I can't imagine how nobody (at least I don't remember) have ever done before the up-down-water thing Spielberg did in the beginning. It just blow me away with se sounds and the images. Really amazing and so simple that you can't understand how nobody else has got that before, but I guess that is what makes Spielberg such a great director.
The reality in this film is amazing, you can feel the blood and the sweat and the screams. You feel like fighting yourself. But the realism isn't perfect. The camera movements etc. makes for a wonderfully looking and realistic film but the fighting scenes in the end.. come on. The Tiger tank was it's time most deadly killing machine ever invented, it was impenetrable. How on earth you destroy that with a sticky bomb. And how can you run freely around it, it had MGs at almost every side.
Anyway that is a minor flaw because these little unrealistic things just build up the atmosphere.
Spielberg, one of our time's greatest director, shows once again his only weakness.. sentimentality. American banners everywhere, no signs of UK, Canadian or any other county's soldiers. That overly sentimental bs popped up to my eyes only a couple of times though so it's not a real problem.
Overall the film is superb and keeps you at the edge of your seat from the beginning to the end, the almost complete reality, the characters... nice movie.
The last thing Hankses character says left me thinking: "earn this". That is the most terrible but also meaningfull thing a person can say before dying to a man he just saved.