Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Genre : Action, Drama, War, Thriller

Saving Private Ryan, based on a World War II drama directed by Steven Spielberg, is the story about a company of U.S. Rangers who is sent on a risky rescue mission.

After returning from the D-Day battlefield, a tough Rangers Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) is sent back to the field on a new mission. The mission is finding the 82nd Airborne paratrooper Private James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon) and brings him home safely. Ryan's three brothers have been killed in battlefield during the World War II and the U.S. government wants him returned to his family alive.

In this rescue mission, Capt. Miller leads a company of 8 elite Rangers consist of Himself, Sergeant Mike Horvath (Tom Sizemore), Private Richard Reiben (Edward Burns), Private Daniel Jackson (Barry Pepper), Private Stanley Mellish (Adam Goldberg), Private Adrian Caparzo (Vin Diesel), T-4 Medic Irwin Wade (Giovanni Ribisi) and the 8th person is Corporal Timothy P. Upham (Jeremy Davies), an interpreter officer who has no combat experience.

The mission is far from easy because after jumping down from their transport plane, all of the paratroops of the 82nd Airborne are landing scattered far in a wide area. During their mission locating the precise Ryan’s landing site, Capt. Miller's men are killed one by one in various incidents. But when they finally locate the paratroops of the 82nd Airborne, Pvt. Ryan refuses to leave his unit.

His squad of paratroops is tasked to defend a vital bridge, and Pvt. Ryan insists on doing just that. Capt. Miller and the surviving Rangers agree to help the paratroops, and in a climactic battle scene, together they manage to hold off a German massive attack. Capt. Miller and all his men are sacrificing their life to save Pvt. Ryan.

All of the battle sequences, the plot and the characters in Saving Private Ryan are amazing and realistic.
It won 5 Oscars and is rated R for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence, and for language.

Director : Steven Spielberg
Awards : Won 5 Oscars
Rating : 10/10