Saving Private Ryan starts out with the invasion of Normandy. There are two brothers in that invasion and they both die. Earlier at New Guinea, the third brother dies. Mrs. Ryan is to receive all three death letters on the same day. When John H. Miller hears about this, him and eight other men go out on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan of Iowa and bring him home, but Ryan is missing somewhere in Normandy. The 101st Airborne Division is spread out everywhere across Normandy and Ryan is part of that division. They first place that they stop at is somewhere near Neuville and it is pouring rain. One of the eight men, Caparzo, is shot by a sniper and is slowly bleeding to death. The other men can’t go out and get him because they will be shot by the hidden sniper. Jackson, another one of the eight, is also a sniper and he locates where they other sniper is and kills him. They find Private James Frederick Ryan from Minnesota and soon they realize they have the wrong person. They talk to the person in charge of the 506th and he tells them the Ryan’s drop zone is somewhere Vierville. The now 7 men travel towards Vierville when they run into a small German machine gun position and decide to take it over. Another man is injured and it is the medic, Wade. There is on German soldier remaining and Miller decides to let him walk away blindfolded and surrender himself. One of the men, Reiben, says that he is going to leave the mission because he thinks that Ryan is dead. Horvath has a gun to his head and is threatening him that if he walks off he will shoot him. Miller then decides to tell everyone that he is an English teacher back home. Reiden decides to stay and fight.
Finally they arrive on the outside of Ramelle where they find the 101st Division attacking a German Army truck and Ryan is with them. Ryan is told about his brothers deaths and he doesn’t want to go home because he wants to stay and fight with his other brothers. He is then told that two men have died because of the trip that was taken to find him. There are German troops that are on their way to take over the bridge that the other troops are guarding and if the Germans take over that bridge then they will win the war. Miller then decided that he will take command of that area and protect Private Ryan at all costs. Miller tells the men to make sticky bombs so that they can stop the German tanks in their tracks. But they don’t know what sticky bombs are, so the other troops help out with getting prepared for the German troops arrival. When the Germans arrive they have about 50 people on ground and 4 tanks. The war starts and it looks like the US troops preparation pays off until Jackson and Mellish, snipers, are killed by a tank. Horvath is also killed in action after being shot in both legs and bleeding to death. While they were trying to blow up the bridge, Miller was shot and was slowly bleeding to death. Miller was sitting on the ground with a pistol shooting at the tanks approaching when an American P-51 Mustang flies over and drops a bomb on the tank. More Mustangs fly over and start dropping bombs everywhere. The American translator that could speak German and French, Upham, was cut off from the US troops and he sees the German soldier that was blindfolded and sent away. Upham then tells the German troops to surrender and the German tries to be nice to him, but Upham kills him. The only survivors are Ryan, Reiden, and Upham. Miller tells Ryan right before he dies, “James…earn this. Earn it.” Miller dies.
I really liked this movie! I didn't know that there was a Sole Survivor Polcy that was made to protect all family members from all dying. At first I thought that the old man in the beginning was Miller crying about not saving Private Ryan and they it ended up being Private Ryan crying about Miller saving him to be alive. I cried a lot in this movie cause their were a lot of peopl dying and stuff like that. I really want to see that movie again.
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Well done!