Robbed By The Academy

Rating: 10/10 (29 November 1999)

The Academy has missed again! There is no possible way that Shakepeare in Love is better than this, the greatest war epic of the last twenty years. Further, Tom Hanks should have received his third Best Actor Oscar for another terrific performance.
The battle scenes were far greater and realistic than any other battle scenes in any other movie of its kind, except for All Quiet on the Western Front and, perhaps, the very underrated Gettysburg of a few years back.

Best pure war movie since Patton, far better than the overrated Platoon and Apocalypse Now flicks.
How could the Academy give Platoon the nod and not this is unbelievable because this movie is ten times better than Platoon. The movie is not preachy and anti-war. There is no unneccesary vulgarity or nudity; no evil soldiers. It is straight to the point with a poignant storyline and the realism is frightening.
The scene where the Jewish soldier is killed by a German knife is one for the ages. In that scene, we see the interplay of death with eroticism.