Ok so this movie starts out with the invasion at Omaha Beach in Normandy. I think this was probably the best scene of the whole movie. Very bloody and exciting. I thought it depicted the event pretty well with the ocean turning red with blood and this guy walking over and picking up his severed arm as calmly as can be and walking away. Then the movie switches to an office-like building and a man there finds out that 3 out of 4 boys from one family have died and their mother is getting all three letters on the same day. So he orders that the surviving boy be found, hence Saving Private Ryan. So captain Miller from the Omaha Beach invasion is sent with a group of other men to go find him. They don't know his exact whereabouts though so it's not easy going. When they finally find a private Ryan and tell him all about how his brothers have died. So he's freaking out and asks how it happened since his brother is in grammar school. This was obviously the wrong private Ryan. I felt bad for that kid. This group of soldiers comes and tells you your brothers are dead and then say "nope wrong guy", that had to be a scene. So the group continues on their way. Then they come across a group of Germans with guns and all the guys except Miller want to just go around but he says it's their duty to take care of it and not let another unsuspecting group come upon it. So they go in and take care of it but one of the guys in the group ends up dying and everyone is really upset. But they eventually get calmed down enough to keep going. They finally find the real private Ryan whose going to take part in an ambush. When they tell him about his brothers he refuses to leave because he says his army friends are the only brothers he has left now and doesn't want to abandon them. So the group that was looking for him takes part in the ambush which was a realllly long scene. Miller ends up dying. This movie is basically a flashback. At the end of the movie private Ryan is in Arlington Cemetery and finds Miller's grave and breaks down crying.
I thought this movie was pretty good although the fighting scenes were pretty long. The Omaha Beach scene was definitely the best. And in one of the scenes the group went looking through a bag of dogtags laughing at the ridiculous names while hoping for Ryan's to come up. The troops around them looked pretty angry.
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