12 Movies Where the Critics Were Totally and Completely Wrong
2. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
It’s just another good movie. Critics, however, fell over themselves to tell us how magnificent Steven Spielberg’s latest offering was.
The film starts off promising and features some of the most harrowing opening scenes ever captured in a war epic.
It also features the acting talents of Tom Hanks who is practically incapable of starring in a bad movie.
Unfortunately, the film loses its pace towards the end, and when the team finally find Private Ryan, after almost two and a half hours, the audience is too exhausted to care.
The film is also peppered with plenty of gruesome moments that are intended to show the reality of war which, according to Spielberg, includes the notion that American soldiers are always the good guys.
What the film lacks in plot and historical accuracy, it more than makes up for in blood, gore and gratuitous violence which is almost always regarded as “ground breaking” by film critics. In the end, “Saving Private Ryan” is a thinly veiled propaganda movie designed to show the world just how noble and brave the US soldiers are in battle.
