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| | Saving Private Ryan
| Details: 1998, USA, Action, cert 15, 169 mins, Dir: Steven Spielberg | | | | With: Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore | | | | Summary: Penetrating and realistically harrowing WW2 drama about an Army captain, (Hanks), assigned to find Private Ryan - whose three brothers have been killed in action - and bring him home. Winner of Best Director Oscar for Spielberg. |
The second time I went to see Saving Private Ryan, I intended to take notes.
This turned out to be a ridiculous idea. It was half an hour before I could
drag my eyes from the screen, even though I'd seen it all once before and
knew what was coming. During this long, complicated and uninterrupted
opening sequence, in which a platoon of American soldiers crosses a Normandy
beach under fire from German machine-gunners, it is simply impossible to
look away. In these minutes, Steven Spielberg raises the cinematic depiction
of battle to a new level.
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|  | The Observer
Philip French Saving Private Ryan is not an exercise in reticence and begins with troops praying and vomiting as they approach the Normandy shore on 6 June 1944. For 25 minutes it batters us unceasingly with sights of carnage and sounds of battle directed by Steven Spielberg with the dynamic brilliance that has become his trademark. |
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