Saving Private Ryan Reveiw

Saving Private Ryan

 

 

 Strong, powerful, and intense; Stephen Spielberg holds nothing back in this hard-hitting, rescue mission stopping at nothing to accomplish the objective saving Private Ryan. Sent by higher power, Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) takes his team of rangers the GI’s on a blood hungry battle through World War II to find Private James Francis Ryan. Saving this one man seemed pointless to the team, but the mission is the mission and no mission goes without completion.

I haven’t seen a well-placed cast since the outsiders directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Tom Hanks gave one of his best performances being the “Captain”. Tom Hanks gives captain miller such a unique personality; He’s bold, smart, and mysteries. Captain Miller would get random shakes in his hands that happen when something wrong, intense, or just nervous. The rest of the GI’ characters did an extraordinary job as well Matt Damon (private Ryan), Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Vin Diesel, Berry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, and much more. Berry Pepper played Private Jackson who is a sharpshooter for the Rangers who calls on the lord while taking to aim on the enemy. Private Jackson gets the team back on the road to the mission after running into problem.

Stephen Spielberg opens the film with a war veteran visiting the American Cemetery at Normandy with his family. He steps away from his family to look at one of the memorial, and get emotional. The war veteran starts to cry and sets this story with a flashback to one of the world’s brutal days on earth. Going right into a twenty-five minute blood bath on the beach was one of the best realistic, powerful re-creation of World War II. The Rangers are deployed on the beach and carefully moving up, watching friends, and combat solders being shot, blown up, and/or burned alive. Pieces of limbs being tarred right off and Bodies laid out allover the beach. The Rangers move up with the next wave of solder and carefully take over the gunners that slaughtered thousands of solder. On the beach littered with blood, guts, and body parts was one with the name Ryan stenciled on his backpack.

Army chief of staff General George C. Marshall learns that three Ryan’s from the same family have all been killed in action within all in the same week. Since the Ryan family would be getting three letters in the same week, the military sent out a request that the surviving brother private Ryan to be located and be brought back to the united states, to carry on the family name and start his life.

Captain Miller and the GI’s are sent out to areas that are thick with Nazis. The rangers have a harder challenge to adore due to that private Ryan’s squad was deployed in a different location that made the mission like a needle in a haystack.  The Rangers going to platoon to platoon searching though dog-tags and people for Private Ryan with his lucky ticket home. The Rangers start to get their doubt that he’s still alive, after loosing a fellow friend, warrior, and hero that was shot three times in a bomb village. The group gets emotional because they know that they can’t save him. Some in the group questions the logic of risking more lives just to save this one man.  

If you haven’t seen this motion picture yet, you are missing out. This film has it all Blood, drama, bravery, courage, dedication, friendship, and good old fashion American muscle. If you don’t like any of these things, then you`re not an American.           

 

Salpri