Saving Private Ryan Reviews
eFilmCritic.com
It's forty minutes of steely violence and two hours of cliche-ridden flab.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ColeSmithey.com
Violent, harrowing, and horrific; you bet. This is not a movie to take your children to see, or even a date. And it's definitely not worth seeing alone. How the ratings board gave this movie an "R" rating is a mystery. Well, maybe not.
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| Original Score: C-
Top CriticFor all the care and thoughtfulness that follow in the story, I never could shake the impression that all I was watching was every other war film Spielberg had ever seen.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Why did Spielberg make it? He wants us to imagine we can feel the terror of being there, but does that make us any wiser about this or any other conflict? Probably not.
Matinee Magazine
Spielberg trades in his usually powerful ideals for an unsettling combination of phony humanism and pandering realism.
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| Original Score: short
rec.arts.movies.reviews
The only thing surprising about Saving Private Ryan is how conventional it is. I fully expected a much more 'noir' vision of WWII along the lines of Oliver Stone's Platoon.
I found it tediously manipulative despite its Herculean energy.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
...the landing on Omaha Beach, should be shown in every high school classroom in America
Full Review | Original Score: A
For those who are willing to brave the movie's shocking and unforgettable images, Saving Private Ryan offers a singular motion picture experience.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Netflix
Saving Private Ryan is far from flawless, but it's an important movie. It shows what America was once capable of, how a threat to freedom and justice was met with resolve and bravery, and how a great victory came at great cost.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Urban Cinefile
The diverse effects that war has on human nature has never been captured with such aching reality.
BDK Reviews
I personally have never fought in a war before but I would go out on a limb and say that the first twenty minutes of the film may be the most realistic war scene I have seen.
| Original Score: 5/5
No further commentary is needed when the raw brutality of combat is presented as indelibly as it is here.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
The honesty and realism of some of the scenes of this film may forever change the war film.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Common Sense Media
Bloody, tragic war epic doesn't hold back.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Combustible Celluloid
Saving Private Ryan is an incredible movie, a near-masterpiece.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Saving Private Ryan is not a film that one takes pleasure in, or even enjoys in the usual sense, but rather, it's a movie that elicits a hushed admiration and an uneasy appreciation.
Filmcritic.com
Spielberg has obviously poured his heart into this movie.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
