I have seen this movie several times. It is very atmospheric and since I love film noir, this movie was a great fit for me. Kathleen Turner burns up the screen and William Hurt is devine the slightly clueless conspirator. If you have seen Double Indemnity, you can't help but make comparisons. The chemistry between Hurt and Turner will make YOU sweat.
Very Good Movie
Reviewed by rqauma for Saving Private Ryan at 2008-06-05 06:42:26
It's been over a year since first seeing Saving Private Ryan -- it's a worthy effort by Speilberg--his best since Shindler's List by far. You've probably heard about the amount of violence, blood, and gore and that's all true--it's got the Viet Nam movie style violence (and then some) but it's not gratuitous. Were it sanitized like early WWII movies, modern audiences probably wouldn't take it as seriously.
This is the best representation yet of the horrors witnessed by the kids sent to Europe to fight in the war. I found myself breathless at times. While their are references to factual events scattered throughout the movie, the fact that it is ultimately a work of fiction bothered me initially. Regardless, the battles portrayed in the film could have been ANY battle fought in the hedgerows and villages of Normandy during the summer of 1944.
Can't wait to see