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Saving Private Ryan
USA 1998, 169 minutes
Dir. Steven Spielberg
Genres: Action/Adventure / War
Feat. Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon
Aroview: Tom Hanks commands a squad assigned to retrieving a single man from behind German lines in WWII France.
With 'sacrifice' the key theme, Spielberg's show leans toward the mawkish and the manipulative, but does provide some realistic insight into unit dynamics and the inner conflict suffered under the most compromising of conditions. Primarily though, it's an outstanding technical achievement, punctuated by a series of masterfully executed combat sequences.
Member Reviews
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(Good Enough). Showing 1-5 of 5 member reviews.
5 stars (Exceptional) A stunning WWII action/drama about the futility of war, Saving Private Ryan has some of the most realistic and graphic war sequences ever shot. The Normandy Landing scene in particular was groundbreaking and still holds up to this day. ~Tom H
4 stars (Very Good) Apart from a really, incredible Normandy Landing scene, it's a pretty standard war film populated with stock-standard characters. ~Wizzums
3 stars (Good Enough) Spielberg sets the scene with such terrifying realism, but the rest seems contrived, manipulative, awkward, dishonest. In a word, Spielbergian. ~HiFi
3 stars (Good Enough) If Spielberg can't quite shake his naive sentimentality, the pulverizing intensity and virtuosity of his combat scenes is undeniable. Morally and thematically reductive, then, but an emotional-visceral knockout all the same. ~fairbrother
2 stars (Good Try) The first half-hour was a good attempt at authentic battle action but even by 1998, when this drama was made, war films had been thrashed to death and we didn't need two and a half hours of it. Shorter would have been much better. ~Tubbs
DVD Features
- English subtitles for the hearing impaired
- 'making of' documentary / featurette
- trailers
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- 1917 (2019)
- Band of Brothers (TV Series) (2001)
- Brotherhood of War (2004)
- Cross of Iron (1977)
- Dunkirk (2017)
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