A&E`s "Ike: Countdown to D-Day" premieres on Memorial Day, in honor of the Normandy invasion`s 60th anniversary, and doesn`t pretend to be a seminal WWII film. "Ike has none of Saving Private Ryan`s cinematic brilliance, but I think it conveys more about the ultimate importance of this battle, and the heroism involved, than all of Steven Spielberg`s special effects with exploded brains and ripped-off limbs," writes Catherine Seipp.
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