a complete waste of time. the summary on the left side is a total crap. it does not tell the story on both scales. it introduces us every single from americans. all of them are cool, have great courage, they are all funny and amusing even in hard times and even during a combat. as you should guess: all the germans are complete idiots who are inevitable and don't have the simplest perception skills. so shame on you hollywood. this was from 1962 and now it is 2010 but you are still the same.

I am yet to see a war movie who would be engaging without strong, well developed characters. Sure, in this film we get to see more acting stars than it's possible to count on fingers of both hands, but this film isn't about characters, it's about D-Day. Impressive massive action scenes and I would recommend it for everyone who is into war movies, but if you, like me, are on the fence about war movies, you should be careful about its runtime of 3 hours.

Classic, very stylish war movie.

Really good WWII movie, definitely worth a watch.

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.

Various moments of inspired cinematography don't make up for its heartless and procedural nature. There are no characters worth caring about. Only shots. And considering its focus on D-Day/Normandy beach, it has in some ways been rendered obsolete by the legendary Saving Private Ryan.

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.

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.

Great Movie

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.

Mandatory viewing for every European and American.

My favorite war movie. An excellent ensemble cast with too many moments to mention where any one of them shine. Perhaps my favorite John Wayne role as well. Top Notch.

A classic war movie that chronicles one of the most important battles in World War II.

Classic war movie. The story of D-Day.

great classic war movie!

Could have been good if it weren't such typical Hollywood fare: Stagey, contrived and wearing a proverbial dorky grin when it should have been naturalistically horrific, as dictated by the subject matter. By 'horrific', I don't mean gorey a-la Spielberg, but that a war movie should be less theatrical and convey more of how people actually feel and act in such situations. Longest is more like a macho fantasy of war (just as Westerns of the day were macho fantasies of the old West).

Now this is an epic for you. Hellacious movie