i love the movie. it shows me what i feel like is the truth about war and about wwii specifically that i'd have no other window in to.
but your screen shot isn't that wrong either. i think you lose something when you go from the first scene -- everyone is anonymous, you don't know any characters, it is just absolute confused chaos hell, there is no greater meaning or subtext to anything any soldier says or does -- which communicates something about the war being 'real.' it ends up being lost once you get character arcs. they end up in a big action scene together. you have heroics that feel a bit hollywood like. you have story elements like steamboat willie being the guy that shoots tom hanks. the coward guy ends up being redeemed by shooting folks at the end. all of that seemed a bit too 'story' to me.
but, it is an unbelievable look into wwii in any event. any you can't have a movie without movie elements, so it feels weird even mentioning it, let alone dinging the movie for it, i know.