Saving Private Ryan (DVD)

Saving Private Ryan is a Stephen Speilberg film and is one of the best world war II films that I have seen. This film was made in 1998 and won 5 Academy awards as well as an Oscar and Baftas. It stars Tom Hanks as Captain John Miller and Matt Damon as Private James Ryan. This film is set in France at the D day landings. Captain Miller and his small platoon gets a mission to find Private Ryan and get him out of the war after it is discovered that his 3 brothers have been killed in battle and his mother is getting all three letters about their deaths on the same day. I don't normally like war films but I found this one interesting. It has a ...  Read the complete review

I’m not a huge fan of ‘War’ Films although I’ve watched a fair few over the years. It seems to me that there have been only a few that have done the subject matter justice. The few that come to mind while I try and write this review are ‘Path of Glory’ (1957), ‘Full Metal Jacket’ (1987) both by Kubrick and ‘Apocalypse Now’ (1979) by Francis Ford Coppola. It seems to me that these films have attempted to inject some realism to the story they are telling whilst not glorifying the subject and in different ways have tried to approach the experience of war through the eyes of the individuals involved, not the ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ Now I know that Steven Spielberg has made many fine movies, and that which one is the best of the bunch is a very personal choice, but in the opinion of this “mad cabbie”, this offering, Saving Private Ryan, (1998) comes close to being his very finest. ~ ~ This is a movie about World War Two. In the opening scene we see an old man searching a virtual forest of white crosses in a military graveyard, until he finally finds the particular one he is looking for, and falls to his knees. In the next instant we are transported through time to D-Day in 1944, and more specifically to the killing ground of Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, where the ...  Read the complete review

Synopsis ========= Having lead and survived one of the assaults on Omaha beach during the D-day landings, Captain John Miller and his team of 8 soldiers are selected for a special mission to enter into German occupied France to try and rescue a soldier by the name of James Francis Ryan. Having come to the attention of General George C. Marshall, that Ryan's 3 brothers had all been killed in action and that his mother was to receive all 3 letters informing her of their deaths on the same day, that to spare her anymore misery, they should do their up most to bring the remaining Ryan back alive. Although opposed to putting their own lives at risk ...  Read the complete review

I am a big fan of war movies, and also of the actor Tom Hanks. So for me, this was a must see. Based on the true story of the 'Fighting Sullivans', Saving Private Ryan is a fantastic masterpiece which imploys heroism, humanity and integrity into it. I was filled with awe and inspiration after watching this film and made me want to go upto every veteran of World War 2 and shake his hand for my utter most respect for what they have gone through. This film will be the closest thing to experiencing what these men went through throughout that time as possible. Directed in 1998 by the marvellous director Steven Spielberg, this film is set during the Normany invasion ...  Read the complete review