It's a classic piece of narrative about a poor Texas farm boy with a 5th grade education who enters the military to take care of his family. The movie follows the book like a shadow and details his exploits across North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and through Europe. Murphy accumulated 33 combat medals during his 3 year stint in the military. After surviving all of that, he died at the young age of 46 in a tragic plane crash. The battle scenes, while not even close in realism to those in Saving Private Ryan, are still convincing and exciting.
Dialogue is fairly sparse.
This movie is almost all historical battles recreated for the screen. Audie knew how to play the part of a soldier and he does so very well. I've had enough of all this combat. All original content 1999 Moviefan Online . All rights reserved.