Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the three US servicemen: Marine Private First Class Ira Hayes, Private First Class Rene Gagnon, and Navy Corpsman John 'Doc' Bradley, who are in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle.
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July 05, 2011
Possibly the richest testament Hollywood has yet made about the paroxysm of World War II ... an astounding movie on every level, not the least of which is its common humanity.
October 23, 2006
Flags of Our Fathers is an accomplished, stirring, but, all in all, rather strange movie.
October 23, 2006
[Flags] fits into Eastwood's late-in-life agenda -- to make violence, even in self-defense, seem soul-killing, and to expose the gulf between reality and myth. After this, how can we ever again make our peace with the iconography of war?
November 30, 2007
Eastwood's two-film project is one of the most visionary of all efforts to depict the reality and meaning of battle.
October 23, 2006
It feels disrespectful to say it, but this kind of war movie, like war itself, is starting to feel sickeningly familiar.
July 16, 2008
The film is confirmation of Paul Haggis's predilection for exploitation and easy sentimentality.
July 03, 2007
Witness to a great director's vision being slowly strangled by the work of a hired hack.
February 12, 2009
The film strives mightily to make some sort of affecting emotional epic about a bit of history that it itself acknowledges is actually footnote-worthy.
October 04, 2009
Sequences fade into the pack and make it difficult to differentiate one player from the others, much less remember them after the lights go up.
December 30, 2006
Here, the feelings run very deep, and dark as dried blood, with Clint aware that some things don't need to be said and others shouldn't be shown.
October 21, 2006
The full weight of a lifetime's experience has been brought to bear in the unobtrusive staging, the delicate score (by Eastwood himself), and a thoughtful, honest accounting of World War II's bloodiest and most iconic battle.
