Extraordinarily noisy war spectacular, enjoyable as a violent entertainment once one has caught all the threads, but emotionally unaffecting because every part is played by a star.
Very good, but some scenes come off a little corny and there's some pretty awkward acting at points ("It's true! [glance over shoulder]"I heard it from a guy in F Company!" [glance over shoulder]).
While some of the acting is somewhat dated (I just have never been able to appreciate John Wayne, to be honest), a lot of the stylistic touches make it great. I dug how they used the POV of a German attack plane as a segue from a scene at one beach to another. Oh! The bagpipes! And the sluggish way the paratroopers move, making you feel the humidity and... yeah, a pretty good movie. Best part: the German troops aren't shown as comic book supervillains, just dudes on the other side of the fence.
Difficult to judge. As a memorial, this film is top-notch. As an evening of quality entertainment - not so much. The film is essentially a collection of vingettes with each 'star' running his own show. The many points-of-view feel merely like teasers rather than a cohesive whole.
Really well directed, shot and edited war film that suffers from a cliched and pedestrian script. As was typical of war films at the time, it paints the Allied troops as an unstoppable force and Germans as idiotic baffoons.
Saving private Ryan looks like the cruelest blood shed after this one. A bit romanticized and funny looking, at times, story about how the world was saved to the Allies.
Seems I'm in the minority who thought this was pretty mediocre. It's not bad, but it tries to do a lot and doesn't succeed at much of it. The 'grand scale' is really just a series of disjointed scenes that are neither intimate to have emotional weight nor grand enough to scope and perspective to the invasion. When you add in some overwritten dialogue and inconsistent acting, I was left seeing a lot of potential but not much realization.
Top badass moment? There were plenty of heroes in this movie, but the real badass ones are those that actually took part in this event for real. Yes, even the American ones. Ironically, modern Germany is light years away from the one depicted in this film, whereas some of us still think we’re fighting the war and running an empire. Losers. No cats, decapitations or chainsaws.
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