Last Flag Flying (2017)
Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard, reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing the burial, the trio take the casket on a bittersweet trip up the coast to New Hampshire - along the way, reminiscing and coming to terms with the shared memories of a war that continues to shape their lives.
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Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
The movie really just wants to entertain people.
Beautiful. Sad. Funny. Poignant. Everything you would hope for from such a movie with the brilliance of the three main actors and a cameo by the superb Cicely Tyson.
The acting was superb across the board, the screen write was great, and the picture was top notch. This is one movie that I regret not hearing about, three great actors that really showed true potential. I would agree this isn't a movie to see if you are a fan of comedy, it is very emotional and heart wrenching at times
Dramatic, poignant, serious, and yet delightfully light hearted. It's about young men at war and the old men returned from war and their memories and the remarkably incommon issues they have handled and moved forward each in their own way. As a retired military combat veteran myself I loved it. The acting is superb by all the players and the story is just memorable and touching in a good way. Needless to say again I loved it for so many reasons. Also, in my view it's an exceptional story of how young men change and adapt to life circumstances whether they are combat veteran or not.
Every scene gives you new information, and every scene -- uniquely, barring Richard Linklater's own "Bernie" or Todd Solondz's recent triumph "Weiner-Dog" -- takes the trouble to put the people in places they could *afford*. What's so astonishing about this "bring it down to Earth" tactic is, you end up being more absorbed *and* awed by seeing it on the big screen (or, even, the little one -- in a way that's "cinematically encoded"). This picture goes to show, whatever it is to making movies, you can't just *do* it, and to have someone like Richard Linklater at the helm, who knows when to pull back or drop in, well, you find yourself responding to normally-corny "movie" tropes like shot-montages or establishing glimpses of places with a renewed sense of wonder. Terrific performances all around -- directors sometimes forget you have to give actors something to *do* (or is it screenwriters? producers?) and this is true all around the case: like they keep bringing out the best in each other. (Why hasn't someone cast Laurence Fishburne as a preacher? His oratory style alone is worth the price of admission!) Hard choices, never preachy, the movie lets the characters talk and is wary of soapboxing so you don't get thrown out of the film. And the director finds the perfect -- or, at least, perfectly *apt* -- place to end it. (This is the guy who made "Before Sunset," after all!)