It was WW2, not Vietnam stupid!

Rating: 1/10 (25 November 2006)

Spoilers
First, there was an hour of pointless new-age soul searching before the battle. Then they take the hill  that was pretty cool. The End? No. There's STILL another hour of soul searching. Right now I can think of two hours that should have graced the floor in the editing room. At one point near the end, that guy from Angel Eyes (and the Passion of the Christ) is looking up in the trees with a weird far-away look on his face. Are there Japanese soldiers hiding up in the trees? Are enemy planes about to attack? No. He's just looking at TREES! And then they made him look so "enlightened" when he's contemplating his goofy Zen crap. Is this that Scientology stuff that Germany outlawed? "The Human race is really one big soul looking out of many eyes." I don't think a single American soldier ever thought that during the war. The movie had lots of big stars in it, thinking weird stuff like that all day. It couldn't have been cheap to make either. If you LIKED Saving Private Ryan, you are sure to LOVE some movie other than this one. Oh yeah, it felt much more like Vietnam than WWII. Overall, it blew pretty badly.