Movie about Hanks character with Pvt Ryan as an after though.

Rating: 7/10 (14 December 2003)

Tom Hanks did a superb job in portraying the poor hapless fellow charged with "saving private Ryan." Only to be killed in the end. Many scenes of war fighting with all one expects, such as enemy snippers, machine gun nests and mine fields. The enemy soldier Hanks benevolently lets go in one such scene is one who helps to kill him in the end. Private Ryan, played by Matt Damon, only coming into play in the latter part of the movie, to me some what of an anticlimax, is insistent he doesn't want to be rescued, but chooses to fight to the end; of the movie that is. Admittedly this movie is about the character played by Hanks, with Damon as an after thought. The Pvt. Ryan character could of just as easily been played by a trained chimpanzee for what it added to the overall movie. While I liked the overall movie, I was noticeable disappointed by the Pvt. Ryan character.