While this movie has amazing cinematography, acting and costumes and is an immensely heart breaking film, this movie doesn't achieve what it was clearly trying to. The Omaha beach scene will go down as one of the best scenes in cinema (and the part of the film which saved my review from giving it a 2), Saving Private Ryan has countless flaws; it tries to be an anti-war film, and while it does show the suffering of the characters, which gets us to sympathise with them, the impact and focus is taken aways by the patriotism and demonisation of the enemy. I'm not saying that Nazis were good, but that an anti-war film should not have a hero-villain narrative. In the end, the film tells you that war is worth all the lives that are lost in it, therefore putting it straight into the pile of American propaganda films.
Review of Saving Private Ryan
