Film Review of Saving Private Ryan

Film Review of Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan was released in 1998 and was directed by one of

Hollywood’s most famous directors Steven Spielberg. His previous work

has included Schlinders List and ET. The screen play was written by

Robert Rodat and the music was composed by John Williams. The cast

included actors such as Tom Hanks, Matt Damon and Tom Sizemore. The

film won 5 Academy awards including best Director and Best Sound

Effects Editing.

The film is about a secretary who finds out that a Mrs Ryan is

receiving three telegrams telling about her three dead sons. So the

army General decides to send in a special unit to bring her only

living son back home. They are sent in to save Private James Ryan who

was a member of the parachute regiment.

The film does not follow chronological order. The first scene is when

a man goes and visits the memorial plot of WWII victims. Then as the

camera zooms into a close up shot of his eyes it takes us back to 1944

when the troops arrive on Omaha Beach. From this point the story

unfolds. It shows fierce fighting on the sea front just as you would

imagine. The story then goes on to the search for Private Ryan and it

follows Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) and his men on their journey. When

the end comes and they find Private Ryan and the battle is over its

goes back to the start, where the man is standing by the grave of

Captain Miller. So as you can see the film does not follow

chronological order, its starts years later and goes back in time.

There was a lot of suspense in the film. Particularly at the end of

the film when they have just rescued Private Ryan and decide to stay

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...rivate Ryan also reminds me of a

film called ‘We Where Soldiers’. This film was another war film a

bought American soldiers in the Vietnam war. This film I felt was not

as good as Saving Private Ryan as it was more focused around the

killing and winning the war.

To me this is probably the best war film I have ever seen. Spielberg

really made the audience feel like they where fighting in the war. By

the dialogue and the scenery it made me feel as if I was there

fighting in the war and I felt the anger and emotion as the soldiers.

I would highly recommend this film to every one.

“My dad brought home stories of the war, and he always explained to

me how unglamorous it is. What I tried to do in this film was

approximate the look and the sounds and even the smells of what combat

is really like” - Steven Spielberg.