Spielberg's World War Two mission movie opens with what is an already legendary recreation of the D-Day landings and closes with a strategic battle that's almost its match - - but everything in between falls short. It's here, devoid of the pyrotechnics, that Robert Rodat's undernourished script is exposed, revealing itself to be little more than a Boys' Own adventure yarn spun around stock characters. Such old-fashioned storytelling sits uneasily with violence so intense that it's been described as "pornographic".
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