virtual war

Rating: 10/10 (10 October 1999)

Saving Private Ryan managed to do to me what only a combination of action/drama/comedy movies can do. It kept me at the edge of my seat in the intense battle scenes. The acting was genuinely good. The graphic nature was only excessive in the very first battle scene (it was not necessary to see the guy screaming Mama with his guts out). Otherwise, no other movie has been able to show me the intense horror and the gravity of war. The soldiers did not have romantic deaths like in most other movies about World War II. In American history, I thought only Vietnam was horrific, but this movie surely changed that picture. It is one movie that I absolutely loved, but I don't think I can tolerate seeing it one more time. I am not American and have no relatives who fought in WWII, so I cannot relate, yet I can feel it through this movie. The only other war movie comparable to this one is Glory. This is one movie definitely worth seeing. If you don't like it, you probably missed something.