Saving Private Ryan

Pros: Superb acting, unbelievable effects, amazing story
Cons: Too real (gory) for children (or those who can't watch ER)

I'll admit, Saving Private Ryan actually made me tear up. This movie is by far the best I've seen this past year. The acting was unbelievable, the effects were outstanding and the story was superb. If you, or someone you know, is into war movies of any...

Pros: Speilberg and Hanks at their best! Very moving historical film.
Cons: Necessary graphic scenes.

This film is a must see for all Americans! It should be required viewing for high school history classes. It provides a very realistic tale of war and what our soldiers went through to provide us with the freedoms we enjoy today. I never truly...

Pros: all around outstanding
Cons: very intense

Saving Private Ryan is the most intense movie I have ever seen. When I left the theatre, my jaw was hurting because I had been clenching my teeth during the movie. It was very intense, especially the first half hour, but it's so real. No other movie gets...

Pros: Excellent portrayal of historical events
Cons: The plot was a little slow

My husband and I saw "Saving Private Ryan" together. As a Gulf War veteran, he has seen and smelled war, though not to the extend portrayed in this movie. He was visibly shaken after "witnessing" the opening segment's action. The...

Pros: Great acting, incredible direction, war footage that is astounding in it's realism.
Cons: Overlong, with too much material for it's own good.

By Max S. Scheinin.

Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan opens with one of the most unforgettable sequences in the history of cinema, the storming of Normandy on D-Day. Forcefully violent, as well as ruthlessly honest, this sequence nearly...

Pros: good acting, reallity
Cons: shady middle

Blood, Death, Gore, Fighting, Killing, Murder, and Execution were in fact all part of war. And I am glad that a movie about war actually shows that facts behind the strategies. The first battle scene of troops landing on the mainland in France is an...

Pros: Very powerful and emotional.
Cons: The plot is a bit unbelievable.

I had many very strong feelings about this movie! Tom Hanks does a fantastic job in this film. The very beginning is very shocking which will either hold your attention or disgust you until the end of the movie. Steven Spielberg does a wonderful job...

Pros: EXCELLENT MOVIE
Cons: IT WASN'T LONG ENOUGH

OK, Heres the plot: The movie takes place in the early 40's during world war 2. The mission is to find Private James Ryan to bring him home because all of his brothers have been killed in the war. Along the way they lose 2 of there men and by the end on...

Pros: Real War Time Perspective
Cons: Not For The Faint of Heart

I had heard that Saving Private Ryan was a must see movie. I have to say I loved this movie from the start to the end. I had one good cry after another. The actors portrayed their characters so well that I believed this was really World War II. This...

Pros: it's a movie
Cons: you'll lose your dinner

The movie starts out in the middle of a blood curdling war fight with guns and bombs going off...next you see actual heads being blown off. Early in a pregnancy, I wouldn't recommend it, as my stomach was absolutely turning!
Later in the movie, it...

Pros: It is a great movie
Cons: It is a guy movie

I bought this movie for my hubby for x-mas. He loved me for it. It is a total guy flick. I tryed to watch it but the blood and guts and realization was too much for me. The whole idea od war is very scary to me. My husband is in the service so it...

Pros: Real suspence acton
Cons: long movie!

I rented this movie and thought it was great. My husband is in the service and I could not help but wonder as I watched tom hanks command his troops through all obsticles of war if my husband would have such devotion to the call of DUTY!
A women...

Pros: Ryan and Damon
Cons: Nothing

Saving Private Ryan is the recent film directed by Steven Spielberg, a director known for his audience manipulation and subsequent audience appeal. He has stated in interviews that, like Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan is a story that is...

Pros: characters, story, Tom Hanks, scenery
Cons: graphic pictures, ending

What a movie, we LOVED it but I had a few problems with it. Do not EAT when you watch the opening scenes, they are more graphic than what I had expected, felt like you were in a REAL war. Never saw a war movie with this much realism, but Spielberg...

Pros: Great action
Cons: None

Saving Private Ryan is a great movie and depicts Steven Spielberg’s greatest movie ever. With amazing acting on behalf of Tom Hanks (the WWII heroic American troop group leader), Private Ryan produces quality work.

Spielberg hits a gold mine...