Great Film

If I hadn't heard vets say that the opening 20 minutes of the film were the most realistic movie portrayal of the battlefield conditions (i.e. the terror and hubbub), then I might have written it off as gratuitously violent. Not that the first 20 minutes had all that much to do with the overall plot, but kudos for realism.

The rest of the movie is a well laid out plot.

I love the way that the men work up a real hate for Ryan as they slog through dangerous territory trying to find him. Then they meet the man and he's so hard to hate. He regrets the men lost to find him and he refuses to take his easy ticket out of the war. He is going to stay and fight to hold the bridge, just like the other soldiers who were already there.

I haven't seen a movie released in the last 10 years that I enjoyed more than SPR.

9/10