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Excellent, but no Saving private Ryan


This movie is extraordinary. Even to the point where I bought the Blu-Ray. I thought it was done well and my favorite Korean actor with Sik.
Now I say it's not better than SPR is because the production and SE are not on point to it at all. The whole battles fought through the European theater are all great as well as a great plot. Much is the same in the whole cost of war and brotherhood stuff, but this film was pretty much about fighting to take the same hill the whole time. The difference isn't that off where to say it's not even close, but SPR just has an all around greater feel and really immersed you from storming the beach at Normandy until the very last battle which was very emotional. I could see Korean people enjoying this more for obvious reasons, but IMHO it just does not hold up to SPR. There were so many "firsts" for it and was a true gem from start to finish.
I say Saving Private Ryan is a 10/10 where this is an 8/10. So not much of a difference to me. It just didn't quite make it there. I would have liked to see more battles and a little stronger battle EFX as well as the story which hooked me from the start to finish, and had me engaged much more than this one. Still great films though .

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