Saving Private Ryan Reviews
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Critic Reviews
Steven Spielberg's soberly magnificent new war film, the second such pinnacle in a career of magical versatility, has been made in the same spirit of urgent communication. It is the ultimate devastating letter home.
Read the full reviewThe rawest, most sustained screen portrayal of 20th century combat.
Read the full reviewThis film embodies ideas. After the immediate experience begins to fade, the implications remain and grow.
Read the full reviewA movie of staggering virtuosity and raw lyric power, a masterpiece of terror, chaos, blood, and courage.
Read the full reviewAn excellent movie, as effective in battle scenes as it is in that of soldiers ruminating on an Edith Piaf song.
Read the full reviewFor those who are willing to brave the movie's shocking and unforgettable images, Saving Private Ryan offers a singular motion picture experience.
Read the full reviewA searingly visceral combat picture, Steven Spielberg’s third World War II drama is arguably second to none as a vivid, realistic and bloody portrait of armed conflict.
Read the full reviewSearing, heartbreaking, so intense it turns your body into a single tube of clenched muscle, this is simply the greatest war movie ever made, and one of the great American movies.
Read the full reviewWhat Steven Spielberg has accomplished in Saving Private Ryan is to make violence terrible again.
Read the full reviewIts relatively minor imperfections seem more glaring when compared to the near flawlessness of the film's lyrical, scorching start.
Read the full reviewA startling reminder of exactly how spectacular a director Spielberg can be when he allows himself to be challenged by a subject (in this case World War II) that pushes against his limits.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 90
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good
"Good acting adequate plot. As most movies are today, a little too long."
The Best
"I'm 67 yrs old and somewhat a WWII buff.Private Ryan is by far the best war picture ever followed closely by Band of Brothers."
Saving Private Ryan.
"The greatest War World II movie ever. It's sad, exciting, and also a movie you will never forget."
saving private ryan
"I think saving private ryan will always be remembered as the best war movie EVER"
Oscar outrage
""Saving Private Ryan" has so many truly great elements, it should be considered the finest war drama ever filmed. For it to lose the Best Picture oscar to a film like "Shakespeare in Love" is one of the most remarkable travesties in oscar history!"
realilistic,terrifing,and filled with heart (repraise)
"Saving private ryan is superibe..one of the most realilistic battle scences ever put in movies...a heart stopping film that will put you in tears...But it loseing best picture to SHAKESPEAR IN LOVE?!!!!! Screw that dull, boring and repetitive movie...it will put you in tears also...tears of BORDOME!!!!!!"
Positively Mind Blowing!
"THIS IS THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME!"
heart wrenching
"my grandfather was at D-day and nearly drowned. i had no clue what he sacrificed until seeing this movie. he lost all of his friends and will not watch "ryan". this movie is a memorial to all those who fought in WWII."
REAL WAR
"THIS IS ABOUT AS REAL AS IT GETS..RETIRED MILITARY"
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