Saving Private Ryan | | Cast : | Tom Hanks, Matt Damon | | Director : | Steven Spielberg | | Studio : | Umvd/Dreamworks | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | July 24, 1998 | | DVD Released Date : | February 08, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | Best War Film | Content
 | This movie is the most graphic imagery of war ever made. Sure there are some errors like military terms and events but all war movies are like that in their own way. Steven Spielberg direction is great and maybe his great direction of film besides Catch Me If You Can which was good. Tom Hanks is great as the commanding officer whose pushed to the edge because of the war. Matt Damon is good in a small role as the title character. Ed Burns, Tom Sizemore, Adam Goldberg, Giovanni Ribisi, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, and Jeremy Davis are great as Hanks' squad. Guest appearance performances by Paul Giamatti and Ted Danson are also good. The action scenes are intense and breathetaking. Highly Recommended. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 28, 2005 | | Summary | Great movie but still fictional | Content
| I had the benefit of doing a staff ride (field trip) to Normandy during my service in the Big Red One. Walking through the cemetary and battlefields really brought a sense of reality to what I saw in this movie. It is strange how places develop souls of their own.
We had a history expert as our tour guide and he basically did what he called the Saving Private Ryan tour. We went to a lot of different places that were shown in this movie as well as some others. The tour was truly invaluable.
The opening scenes of the landing at Normandy are agreed on by most reliable experts to be realistic and the best ever put to film. After that the movie is pretty much fictional and not historically accurate although the feel is still real.
The reason why I am docking 1 star is because of the scene with the crashed glider. The General that went down with this glider was a man of honor and truly a soldier's General. There is absolutely no reason to believe there was any special effort to protect his glider with armor plating. This is Hollywood garbage and was unnecessary. I put a stone on his grave as did many others to show my appreciation. He died in action like everyone else and deserves to be remembered only with honor and appreciation.
For a more realistic look at WWII watch Band of Brothers. These people were truly America's greatest generation and the entire world owes them so much. When France did not want to help us out President Bush should have sent Chirac a copy of this and B.O.B. and said next time maybe we will be too busy, order more white flags. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | Great movie | Content
| for anyone that is looking at the reviews for this movie and you see one under 3 stars just skip it. I have seen very many reviewers saying that oh this story could never happen they would not send out a squad for one man well becuase i have the 60th aniversery adision on the bonus disk speilburg clearly states he found and article of some kind that said there was one brother out of four and his brothers died so they sent a squad out after him to send him home. So this moive did happen during WWII. and other complants are that the d-day intro is to short because it really lasted like 8 or 9 hours. well what did you people want spielburg to do make his movie 12 hours so the omaha beach sequence can be the right lenth. all in all this is a great film and it will be remember for a long time. buy it rent just make sure you see it |
| Rating | | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | Beautifully done! Will be a classic | Content
| This movie belongs in the collection of any person collecting movies about WWII. Superbly done. I had a hard time dealing with the beach landing portion, but I know that it was truly portrayed and not "white washed". My Dad was a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy during WWII. Dad had many tales to tell me of beach landings both in Europe and in the Pacific. None of them pleasant. I will not go into details on the movie itself.
I don't want to ruin it for anyone. If you have not seen it, buy it or rent it soon. It will leave an indelable impression on your mind about what our American soldiers of any war have to run risk of in order that America endures! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 15, 2005 | | Summary | Greatest War Ever | Content
| SPR was incredible from beginning to end. The most powerful and moving scene being the beginning which could and probably is the most horrific war scene ever filmed for a movie. The 20 minute re-inactment of Omaha Beach shows dipictions of young and old men, blown to bits, decapitated, holding their intestines and fluids in and screaming in pain for their mothers probably making most veiwers hide under their seats. Of course SPR was the wake up call to anybody who thought that war was triumphant music playing while 10 men take 100's without reloading once while the enemy soldiers just get hit and fall down onto the ground like young boys playing pretend. SPR was nothing like that. The biggest reasons why it had such an impact was because you can feel the emotions of the characters and that there was no music during the battle sequences. During the film not one gun was fired off while music was playing. It was an incredibly moving movie and i can tell ever since i saw it it has been my favourite.
FIVE STARS!!! |
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