Beautifully poetic

Rating: 10/10 (13 September 2005)

In many cases, I have found that Steven Spielberg movies, while usually very good for sitting in a theater and enjoying were never really my kind of thing. I bought this movie on a hunch that this one would be different. Well, it really wasn't, but I can't deny the absolute perfection of such a blatantly Hollywood movie. In typical Spielbergian fashion, the movie lifts you up and throws you down throughout, but never enough to make you very happy or sad, but at the end... The end is where the real kick is. I've never seen such a blatantly obvious attempt to make a person cry, but, even though I tried not to, I still did. It was an impossible temptation to escape. Sure it's propaganda, sure it's a Hollywood, ends happy, leaves you with a good feeling inside type of movie, but it was still more powerful than many other movies could even try to be.