A single shot can end the war.
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- intimateepic
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- r96skon TMDB · Feb 20228/10
A nicely crafted war film. I wasn't overly invested in what was happening onscreen, but that doesn't take away from the fact that I still found <em>'Flags of Our Fathers'</em> to be a very good and a very interesting story from the Battle of Iwo Jima. It's a fascinating tale that it tells, which is definitely its strongest feature. As a whole I was very interested in it, individually I don't think it's as strong but as a collective it comes out nicely. Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford and Adam Beach are the pick of the performers, though there are a load of familiar faces elsewhere - including Paul Walker, John Slattery and Jamie Bell. Super intrigued to check out <em>'Letters from Iwo Jima'</em>, which Clint Eastwood & Co. released two months after this to serve as a companion piece. Hopefully that's as good as this.
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Cast
- Ryan PhillippeJohn 'Doc' Bradley
- Jesse BradfordRene Gagnon
- Adam BeachIra Hayes
- John Benjamin HickeyKeyes Beech
- John SlatteryBud Gerber
- Barry PepperMike Strank
- Jamie BellRalph "Iggy" Ignatowski
- Paul WalkerHank Hansen
- Robert PatrickColonel Chandler Johnson
- Neal McDonoughCaptain Severance
Crew
- Clint EastwoodDirector
- Paul HaggisScreenplay
- William Broyles Jr.Screenplay
- Tom SternDirector of Photography
- Clint EastwoodOriginal Music Composer
- Joel CoxEditor
- Steven SpielbergProducer
- Clint EastwoodProducer
- Robert LorenzProducer
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