Saving Private Ryan

Pros: It's a realistic war film, one of the best in the genre.
Cons: May be hard to watch at times. Battle scenes may be too graphic for some.

Part One: The Movie If 1993's Schindler's List was Spielberg's soul-searching and ultimately redemptive examination of why we fought the war (the movie graphically shows the Third Reich's true nature as an evil regime), then 1998's Saving Private Ryan ...

Pros: Winner of five Academy Awards.
Cons: None at all.

Saving Private Ryan was the most honored film of 1998 and winner of five Academy Awards® Produced and directed by Stephen Spielberg (Vietnam Veteran). Tom Hanks as Capt. John Miller Matt Damon as Pvt. Ryan Tom Sizemore as Sergeant Horvath ...

Pros: Epic Battle Scenes
Cons: Lame story

Director Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" was an intensely gripping movie for the first 30 minutes - and the last 30 minutes -- specifically the two big battle scenes: D-Day and the Battle at Newville. The middle hour and a half consisted of...

Pros: Great War Movie
Cons: None

I have finally decided to review my favorite movie, Saving Private Ryan. This movie was release in 1998 and received five Academy Awards including Best Director for Steven Spielberg. Tom Hanks and Matt Damon star is this movie, with Hanks...

Pros: Fantastic war scenes, fine acting and direction
Cons: Slight inconsistencies, average plot

Spielberg's film is an ode to all the men and women who fought and died in World War II, and it's a marvel. Yet, as awe-inspiring as the carnage filled open and closing sequences are, the story leaves a little something to be desired, and there are...

Pros: Spielberg's Direction, Script, Look, Locations, Editing, Cinematography, Music, Sound, & Cast.
Cons: None, Though the Battle Scenes are Extremely Graphic.

Considered to be one of the greatest yet horrific wars of the 20th Century, World War II was a huge conflict between the Allies that consisted of many countries led by the U.S., Great Britain, and Russia and on the other side were the Axis led by ...

Pros: Tom Hanks
Cons: Please see the review

Saving Private Ryan

STARRING: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Jeremy Davies, Giovanni Ribisi

DIRECTOR: Steven Spielberg

WRITER: Robert Rodat

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Pros: Realistic battles, technical aspects
Cons: Old plot, confused messages, manipulative, old characters, heroism, history, treatment of Germans, unrealistic ideas

In trying to create the most powerful anti-war experience ever made on film, Spielberg fails miserably. This is an unpopular claim, but I stand by it. My first epinion to say this was a rant that (though I say it myself) had some good points in it, but...

Pros: Great acting from Dye, Damon, Pepper, Sizemore and Hanks; compelling story
Cons: Makes one doubt the saying "Nothing succeeds like excess"

This is one of those few movies I was fortunate to see for the first time with my ex-girlfriend PJ during that brief interlude when we both lived in Evanston, Illinois. I saw it again last night, for the first time in five years. PJ and I gasped at all ...

Pros: Very realistic; poignant without being preachy; outstanding cast
Cons: Brutally violent (but realistic); not for the easily disturbed.

It's easy to forget that war, in its most basic form, is a battle of armies out to slaughter each other. Forgotten more easily is the fact that each soldier, no matter what his rank or job, is a real flesh-and-blood person and not just a number. "Saving ...

Pros: Graphic depiction of small unit combat
Cons: Unrealistic tactics. Lack of special features on DVD

Sixty years ago today, thousands of American, British and Commonwealth troops crossed the channel to liberate France from German occupation in the greatest invasion in history. Since I wasn't able to go to France to join the world leaders and ...

Pros: It looks sensational, and has fine acting, a good screenplay, and amazing battle sequences.
Cons: Well...it ends?

Five years before making Saving Private Ryan, director Steven Spielberg crafted what is quite possibly the most haunting and powerful film ever made about the Jewish Holocaust with Schindler's List. Saving Private Ryan is in many ways a bookend to ...

Pros: Intense battle sequences make you duck the bullets; deeply-felt performances
Cons: Some characters border on the typical war movie stereotypes

War is hell and nowhere is that more apparent than the battle sequence Steven Spielberg uses to open "Saving Private Ryan." The much-lauded 20 minutes are brilliant and harrowing as we watch the terrified Allied soldiers push their way up...

Pros: Historically accurate, action packed
Cons: None

Many people that have seen the movie “Saving Private Ryan” enjoyed it because it had non-stop action or because it was so historically accurate. But I enjoyed it for a different reason. I enjoyed it because it showed the closeness that men feel once...

Pros: Superb action
Cons: The usual Spielbergian pap

I'm another one of those guys who really wanted to like "Saving Private Ryan". It has been eons since a decent World War II movie was released. Frankly, I'm at a loss to think of one since than "Memphis Belle", which was none too...