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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

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Reviews Counted:191

Fresh:139

Rotten:52

Average Rating:7/10

Consensus: Flags of Our Fathers is both a fascinating look at heroism, both earned and manufactured, and a well-filmed salute to the men who fought at the battle of Iwo Jima.

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Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sequences of graphic war violence and carnage, and for language

Runtime: 2 hr. 12 min.

Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama

Theatrical Release: Oct 20, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $33.6M

Synopsis: "Flags of Our Fathers" is a human drama of friendship and love, sacrifice and manipulation, set against the violent conflict of the battle of Iwo... "Flags of Our Fathers" is a human drama of friendship and love, sacrifice and manipulation, set against the violent conflict of the battle of Iwo Jima. The film focuses equally on the war and home, crosscutting between the viciousness of the battle and the manufactured propaganda campaign and careful manipulation of the image that followed--issues that remain prevalent today. As "Flags of Our Fathers" shows how the photograph became the very beginning of celebrity worship, the film questions our need to create and celebrate heroes, sometimes at a cost. [More]

Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey

Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker, Robert Patrick, Neal McDonough, Melanie Lynskey, Tom McCarthy, Christopher Bauer, Judith Ivey, Myra Turley, Joseph Cross, Benjamin Walker, Alessandro Mastrobuono, Scott Reeves, Stark Sands, George Grizzard, Harve Presnell, George Hearn, Len Cariou, Christopher Curry, Bubba Lewis, Beth Grant, Connie Ray, Ann Dowd, Mary Beth Peil, David Patrick Kelly, Jon Polito, Ned Eisenberg, Gordon Clapp, Michael Cumpsty, V.J. Foster, Kirk B.R. Woller, Tom Verica, Jason Gray-Stanford, Matt Huffman, David Hornsby, Brian Kimmet, David Rasche, Tom Mason, Patrick Dollaghan, James Newman, Steven M. Porter, Dale Waddington Horowitz, Lennie Loftin, David Clennon, Mark Thomason, Oliver Davis, Sean Anthony Moran, Lisa Dodson, John Nielsen, Jon Kellam, Ron Fassler, Denise Bella, Vlasis-Gascon, Jenifer Menedis, Joie Shettler, Vivien Lesiak, John Henry Canavan, Donn Emerson, Jayma Mays, Yukari Black, John Hoogenakker, Barry Sigismonde, William R. Charlton, Beth Tapper, Shannon Gayle, Jim Cantafio, Mark Colson, Danny McCarthy, Patrick New, James Horan, Michael Canavan, Erica Grant, Silas Weir Mitchell, George Cambio, David S. Brooks, Johann Johannson, Martin Delaney, Daniel Forcey, Bjorgvin Franz Gislason, Darrin Ingolfsson, Hilmar Gudjonsson, Jeremy Merrill, Jeremiah Bitsui

Director: Clint Eastwood

Director: Clint Eastwood
Producer: Clint Eastwood , Steven Spielberg
Studio: Paramount

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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.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment 1 Comment
Oct 4, 2009
Donald J. Levit
Donald J. Levit
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

A human-sized contemplation of propaganda and fame

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
Aug 28, 2009
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion
N/R

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
Apr 23, 2009
Peter Keough
Peter Keough
Boston Phoenix

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.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment 1 Comment
Feb 12, 2009
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com
N/R

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Full Review Source: NPR.org | comment Comment
Oct 18, 2008
Bob Mondello
Bob Mondello
NPR.org
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The film is confirmation of Paul Haggis's predilection for exploitation and easy sentimentality.

Full Review Source: House Next Door | comment Comment
Jul 16, 2008
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
House Next Door
N/R

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Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
Jan 15, 2008
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

Eastwood’s two-film project is one of the most visionary of all efforts to depict the reality and meaning of battle.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
Nov 30, 2007
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
Jul 14, 2007
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

Witness to a great director's vision being slowly strangled by the work of a hired hack.

Full Review Source: Stranger Song | comment Comment
Jul 3, 2007
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Stranger Song

Reminds us of the great damage that can be done to society's most vulnerable by those blustering war mongers who are so very far away from the combat they are inciting.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment 1 Comment
Jun 18, 2007
Dan Jardine
Dan Jardine
Apollo Guide

carefully dismantling one heroic archetype only to replace it with another, more nuanced one

Full Review Source: musicOMH.com | comment Comment
Jun 15, 2007
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
musicOMH.com

A pretty darn good, but not completely great, war movie that pays overdue homage to the WWII veterans who never made it home.

Full Review Source: DVD Clinic | comment Comment
May 25, 2007
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
DVD Clinic

A quest to find the humanity behind the imagery of Iwo Jima that never gets beneath the skin to the real men who became heroes with a single camera shot.

Full Review Source: UGO | comment Comment
Mar 24, 2007
Brian Tallerico
Brian Tallerico
UGO

...entertaining yet strangely forgettable...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment 2 Comments
Mar 10, 2007
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Una fuerte y conmovedora película de guerra que es todo un alegato contra la irracionalidad, sobre todo la de los gobernantes que mezclan heroísmo con propaganda. Una nueva culminación de Clint Eastwood como director.

Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | comment Comment
Feb 12, 2007
Enrique Buchichio
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total

Apesar do tom de importância que empresta a si mesma, A Conquista da Honra é uma empreitada apenas razoável.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
Feb 3, 2007
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

No hay tal cosa como los héroes...

Full Review Source: Cinenganos | comment Comment
Jan 27, 2007
Luis Martinez
Luis Martinez
Cinenganos

Writers William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis believe that they are contrasting the men's lives with their heroic image. Sadly, what they present to the viewer is yet another fabricated image, and one that is equally false.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
Jan 13, 2007
Uri Lessing
Uri Lessing
eFilmCritic.com

Who would have thought that Clint Eastwood would emerge as one of the best and most interesting filmmakers of the early 21st Century? Given his track record, I certainly wouldn't have. But with FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS he has made a superb, if uneven, film.

Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews | comment Comment
Jan 11, 2007
Ted Murphy
Ted Murphy
Murphy's Movie Reviews
 
 
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