Watch the first 40 Minutes, Feel free to Leave...

Rating: 1/10 (29 January 1999)

I was impressed by the brutal battlefield depiction which started the movie, and I'm sorry to say it's all downhill from there. There was even a very appropriate moment of black comedy when the soldiers shoot the surrendering Germans, but not five minutes later they introduce clumsy Private Comic Relief and for me the movie was over. Everything from then on seemed a pale cliché of every other war movie I've ever seen, and I haven't seen all that many. Ooh the stars went through boot camp! Was I the only one who noticed how loud (obnoxious) and unorganized the troops searching for Private Ryan were? They would have all been dead in seconds. Oh yeah, very realistic!