Saving Private Ryan

Pros: Excellent first scene and last battle
Cons: Everything about it is standard, overlong, failed emotions

Although unanimously praised and won several Oscars, Saving Private Ryan to me is a fairly standard war film. It isn’t bad necessarily, just never really found it to be anything special. The opening scene is great and I love the last battle scene, ...

Pros: Effects
Cons: none

This movie revolves around a Private James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon) who has lost three brothers in the war and when the army finds out that his mother will be receiving the notices on his brothers and he is still in harms way and, they send out a group ...

Pros: screenplay,story
Cons: none

This movie is just awesome in one word. From the 15 minute opening sequence, where the brutalities of war are exposed on a scale never shown before even in Hollywood to the nerve wracking journey to find Private Ryan  dodging Nazis, bombs, ...

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: Very good scenery, acting, firefights, and directing
Cons: Not the greatest movie for romancing

Saving Private Ryan is one of the greatest World War II movies ever created by one of the greatest film directors in history, Steven Spielberg. The writer, Robert Rodat, was just as phenomenal with his writing. However the director and writer do not ...

Pros: Solid acting, directing done with a good 'feel' to the movie
Cons: Little bits perhaps not historically accurate

Some of you may be wondering why i'm reviewing a non-recent movie on Christmas Day. Did I receive a copy for Christmas? No; i've had a copy of it for three or four years. What happened was that I had a hankering to see the movie again on Christmas ...

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: 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: 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: 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'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: The most incredible war movie I have seen.
Cons: None.

In the midst of World War II, a squad of 8 American soldiers begins a mission to find one man, and b ...

Pros: Great tribute to those who lived and died at Normandy and Omaha Beach.
Cons: Graphic violence can be disturbing

My grandfather was at Normandy, so I think this movie is a tribute to what he went through there. To ...

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: Great action, Historically accurate for the most part, Intense plot.
Cons: Few minor mistakes......

When I got to watch this movie, it was because I finally broks down and bought the movie. I never got to go to the theater to see this and I know that the sound and all would have been much better, but I really enjoyed the VHS tape. The action sequences...