Can't be better, than "Saving Private Ryan"

Rating: Null/10 (19 December 1998)

I see it as an impossibility for "The Thin Red Line" to become better than "Saving Private Ryan". I will explain why.
In "Saving Private Ryan", Steven Spielberg has shown us all the aspects of war: how war affects people, what they really had to go through, what happened at home, who fought the war and how they did it.
All this is presented to us in blood and horror.
All this makes "Saving Private Ryan" not only the best and the most realistic war-films ever made, but simply one of the best films ever made by anyone.
Because "Saving Private Ryan" tells everything there is to know about war, the other upcoming war-films are no longer necessary.
Of course you can make a very good war-movie, it's not that. It's simply that it's nothing more to say, it's nothing more to learn, there is nothing more to see.
And I'm sure that many great war-films will be made in the future, and "The Thin Red Line" is one of them, but it will not serve its original purpose, because we already know what war is like.