Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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.

Danny Blankenship Finally watched the latest film from Richard Linklater who mostly does works of friendship and family and with this touching drama "Last Flag Flying" it doesn't let you down. A film that's powerful and bold with a statement of courage showing that honor can be done in a different way and manner.Set in 2003 thirty years after a trio of Vietnam War veterans served all reunite and get together on a different mission and that's the burial of one's son former Navy Corp medic Larry "The Doc"(Steve Carell), as Doc's son was a young Marine killed in the Iraq war.Yet this burial is different Doc decides instead of a National Cemetery burial the casket will go back by train to his New Hampshire hometown. Along the way help and support is given from the outspoken and against the grain Sal(Bryan Cranston) and the straight and loving Rev. Richard(Laurence Fishburne).Along the way this journey produces memories, reflection, and rediscovered love and thru it all these traits continue to shape their lives with bravery and courage. Overall this is a well done film of standing up and being brave with courage and emotion.

kanjeep As a Marine, there are some great scenes that brought back some great memories......BUT, they just had to add some tree-huggin-hippie crap that kept it from being better.

Crabby McGrouchpants 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!)