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The battlefield footage will be compared with “Saving Private Ryan,” which set the bar high for the realism of mortal combat, but this is to be expected. As one would expect from filmmaker Eastwood, detail is paramount in this production. Jesse Bradford, as Gagnon, is given the least attention of the three. Ryan Phillippe does his best to give dimension to his corpsman Bradley and does a solid job showing the bravery these medicos displayed every day during the battle.

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Ira’s sad story could have been a movie unto itself – it was already made in 1961 with Tony Curtis portraying the Pima Indian turned marine in “The Outsider” – so Eastwood’s take on his story feels rushed and not fully realized. Focus is placed on the three survivors but it is Ira Hayes’s tragic story that gets the most attention from the screenplay by William Broyles Jr. With so many players, from grunts to generals and, even, President Harry Truman (David Patrick Kelly), there are too many faces and short shrift is given to nearly all of the characters. Instead, marine Harlon Block (Benjamin Walker) was really the sixth man, but only identified as such much later.) Flags…” has a huge cast, which is one of the film’s weak points. (One of the men credited in the photo, Hank Hansen (Paul Walker), was not there that day. Just as you get hooked on the well done battle scenes, the story pulls you into the (well-staged) war bond drive, cocktail parties celebrating John Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), Ira Hayes and Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford) as heroes and the controversy over the true identities of the flag raisers. The frequent jumps in time and place often take you out of the film. There is a lot going on in “Flags of Our Fathers,” maybe too much for a film that is just over two hours long. The result is an uneven film that leaps, sometimes awkwardly, from the days prior to the landing on Iwo, the invasion and its carnage, the flag raising, the morale boosting bond drive by the three survivors, the impact of “heroism” on Ira Hayes (Adam Beach) and later day talking head interviews with survivors of the battle. Before his death, John Bradley never talked about the war or his place in history and his son had to piece together the events of that day and its aftermath. Laura's Review: NYRīased on the book by James Bradley and Ron Powers, Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima, Eastwood’s much anticipated work jumps through time as Bradley discovers that his father was one of the six men captured in the most printed photo ever. Laura has not finished her review of this film.

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