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Avg. Customer Rating:  1690 reviews
Media: Blu-ray
ASIN: B000NA7WS0
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 Tell Me I'm A Good Man September 8, 2008
All war movies capture a piece of the brutality that is war but only a very few bring forth the full carnage that war is. In SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, director Steven Spielberg drags the viewer out of his seat and throws him into the sound and fury of modern war. Critics have noted that with the opening scene of GIs getting machine gunned by Wehrmacht troopers on Omaha Beach on D-Day, Spielberg begins a three hour howl of pain that affects the soul as much as it does the body. It is impossible to feel nothing even for the Germans who die by the hundreds.
Tom Hanks is Captain Miller who has the thankless task of bringing home Private Ryan whose three other brothers have died in battle. The question of the morality to do this while others are equally deserving a ticket home is announced by Ryan (Matt Damon) himself who refuses to leave while his comrades need him. It is this subtext of ethics versus pragmatism that imbues the film with the multi-layers of interpretation that result in equally multi-viewings. There are numerous scenes in which a soldier will pause while directly involved in a life and death struggle to detach himself from the fray to consider some basic concepts that mark him as human. Jeremy Davies plays a GI interpreter who must face the morality of what it means to use his linguistic skills as simply one more element for killing the enemy. Nearly everyone in Capt. Miller's squad also wonders whether their lives are collectively worth the one whose three brothers were killed. What makes this insane struggle to quantify the unquantifiable work is the realization that the ability to judge the worth of such a sacrifice cannot be realized until much later when the now elderly Private Ryan pauses in front of the grave of Capt. Miller to pass judgment on an event that for everyone save him is only of historical interest. To know that he is one who has tried his best to live the Good Life somehow lets him sleep at night. We in the audience can share this most intimate of moments.
 Great Package August 31, 2008
Awesome movie, even better with this edition. If you don't have a copy of this film, definitely get it. If you have a copy of the film, but you enjoy WWII history, etc. get it. Enjoy.
Good film but no masterpiece August 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first scenes of "Saving Private Ryan" are spectacular. You are with the landing force as it hits the beach at Normandy. Shells are exploding, landing craft are blowing up and machine gun bullets are pinging off of metal. Craft bow hatches are let down only to let machine gun bullets enter and wipe out the would-be invaders. Still other soldiers, loaded down with ammo and weapons, jump out into deep water to sink and drown on the spot.
Survivors scramble to the beach where they are shot down in the scores. Eventually, they organize, push through with Bangalor mines and are able to destroy points of German resistance. Germans who surrender are mown down without mercy. [Hey, What about the Geneva Convention?]. After this exciting segment, the movie settles down to a pretty average World War II movie. We win most of the fights.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Conquest of Mexico
 D-pressing August 18, 2008
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
I know a lot of people consider this some kind of classic, but I find it to be one of the most depressing films I've ever watched. I'll take "To Hell and Back," "The Big Red One," or "Sands of Iwo Jima," to name a few, over this film anyday.
I know "War is Hell," and a terrible thing and all, but I don't need those facts driven home quite this forcibly.
This movie is a bummer to watch and I'll never watch it again (with all due respect to Tom Hanks, a great actor)!
One of the best WWII movies for me August 8, 2008
The only other thing that comes close to this is the Band of Brothers mini series. Very cool and well done.
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