Can't Help It, Didn't Like It

Rating: Null/10 (2 September 2002)

Take a blockbuster and quality movies director such as Steven Spielberg, a good leading actor like Tom Hanks and a decent cast (Tom Sizemore and Edward Burns are my choices) and you'll get the best movie ever. Or you should at least. Steve got this one wrong in my opinion. Starting and ending the movie with a US flag isn't the way of making a movie hat will be shown throughout the world.
The allied assault on Normandy was amazing and close to reality (I believe), making it the most remembered scene in the movie (and best).
But then the plot sinks in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Yes, sending 8 soldiers to rescue 1 just because his brothers are dead does seem unlikely and I wouldn't risk the lives of a capable platoon for only one soul.

And making that chickenheart corporal Upham's mind change fast enough to make him shoot an unarmed man at point blank does nothing good to this movie.
Overrated; The Thin Red Line and Black Hawk Down are much better. It's not bad, really, but I just can't figure out what the hell is so goo about it.