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Flags of Our Fathers

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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 184

Fresh: 134

Rotten:50

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.

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

Runtime: 2 hrs 12 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Oct 20, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $33,574,332

Synopsis: It is the most memorable photograph of World War II, among the greatest pictures ever taken. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for photography and one of the most-reproduced images in the history of... It is the most memorable photograph of World War II, among the greatest pictures ever taken. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for photography and one of the most-reproduced images in the history of photography, the picture has inspired postage stamps, posters, the covers of countless magazines and newspapers, and even the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima," a picture taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945 depicts five Marines and one Navy Corpsman raising the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi. The image served as a counterpoint for one of the most vicious battles of the war: the fight to take Iwo Jima, a desolate island of black sand barely eight square miles that would prove a tipping point in the Pacific campaign. Lasting more than a month, the fight was a bloody, drawn-out conflict that might have turned the American public against the war entirely, had it not been for the photo, which was taken and published five days into the battle. The photograph made heroes of the men in the picture as the three surviving flag-raisers were returned to the U.S. and made into props in the government’s Seventh War Bond Tour. Uncomfortable with their new celebrity, the flag-raisers considered the real heroes to be the men who died on Iwo Jima; still, the American public held them up as the best America had to offer, the supermen who conquered the Japanese… ...and then, just as quickly as it had arrived, the glory faded. For two of the surviving flag-raisers, life became a series of compromises and disappointments; for the third, happiness came only by shutting off his war experiences and rarely speaking of them ever again. "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. Two-time Academy Award®-winning director Clint Eastwood 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. DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures present a Malpaso/Amblin Entertainment production, "Flags of Our Fathers." Directed by Clint Eastwood, the screenplay is by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis, based on the book by James Bradley with Ron Powers. Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Lorenz produce the film. --© DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures [More]

Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Jamie Bell, Robert Patrick, Barry Pepper

Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Jamie Bell, Robert Patrick, Barry Pepper, Paul Walker, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery, Neal McDonough, Brian Kimmet, Steven Koller, Melanie Lynskey, Ken Watanabe

Director: Clint Eastwood

Director: Clint Eastwood
Producer: Robert Lorenz, Steven Spielberg
Studio: DreamWorks Distribution LLC

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
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: Mr. Brown's Movies | comment Comment
02/12/09
Michael Dequina
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10/18/08
Bob Mondello
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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
07/16/08
Ed Gonzalez
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Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
01/15/08
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
11/30/07
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment Comment
07/14/07
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
07/03/07
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
06/18/07
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
06/15/07
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
05/25/07
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
03/24/07
Brian Tallerico
UGO

...entertaining yet strangely forgettable...

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
03/10/07
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
02/12/07
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
02/03/07
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

No hay tal cosa como los héroes...

Full Review Source: Cinenganos | comment Comment
01/27/07
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
01/13/07
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.

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01/11/07
Ted Murphy
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01/06/07
Ebert & Roeper
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The film as a whole is missing something, with much of the problem lying with the cast -- including Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell and Adam Beach -- who are seriously bland.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
01/02/07
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]
 
 
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