EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Benas Mcloughlin Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

masonfisk A companion piece to The Last Detail (written by Daniel Ponsican who co-scripted here) & directed by Richard Linklater details a trio of Vietnam vets escorting one of their sons home for burial who lost his life fighting in Iraq. Much like Detail, we get a sense of the lives lived since their wartime duty & how for some, things have moved forward while others are stuck in a perpetual cycle of pain & regret. A welcome vehicle for the 3 leads (Steve Carrell, Bryan Cranston & Laurence Fishburne) who perform w/the expertise & nuance you would expect. Another notch in Linklater's belt who at this point in his career seems unable to do no wrong.

secondtake Last Flag Flying (2017) A great, low-key mixture of comedy and sadness. The more it went on the more I appreciated the situation, which unfolds like a play, and the ensemble acting, which is sharp. Bryan Cranston steals the show as the outgoing practical bartender veteran, but Laurence Fishburne and Steve Carell are really spot on, too, in deliberately restrained ways. The film is trying to get to something here. At first it seems to be about some guys coming to terms with their time in Viet Nam, and how it compromised them then, with repurcussions ever onward. Then a slow critique of war and of the US approach to war, pretending everyone in uniform is always a hero, and fighting for questionable (or worse) causes. But an important third element grows-the actual meaning these men have for each other. They hadn't seen each other in decades, but their comraderie was almost unbroken because of some deep bond formed in wartime. And when it really comes down to it, even as they reject and hate the government for what they were forced to do, they still understood honor and respect. Including a love of country, somehow. That it's there, despite the flaws. Or something like that. (There are complications, and it would be easy and shameful to oversimplify.) The big point is: see this and give it time to settle in and warm up. The three men are deliberately an odd mix, and there are a couple of scenes that are rather too neatly contrived to make a fast point in the narrative, but overall it makes sense and is moving.

yassinebououzrou Don't waste your time on this movie, it's so boring and the acting is bad

aliensuitcase I love movies that are about a journey. This was an emotional ride. An unexpected jewel. Characters were well developed. Plot easy to follow, in a good way. The leads all shined. Two thumbs up.