Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
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.
- Clint Eastwood
- Mable Lawson-McCrary
- Peter Dress
- William Broyles Jr.
- Paul Haggis
Rating: 6.86/10 by 1832 users
Alternative Title:
A dicsőség zászlaja - HU
Banderas de nuestros padres - ES
Mémoires de nos pères - FR
À la mémoire de nos pères - FR
Mémoire de nos pères 1 - FR
A Conquista da Honra - BR
아버지의 깃발 - KR
Iwo Jima - Flags of Our Fathers - US
Sztandar Chwały - PL
父辈的旗帜 - CN
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 02 hour 15 minutes
Budget: $90,000,000
Revenue: $65,900,000
Plot Keyword: dying and death, japan, world war ii, pacific, pacific war, iwo jima, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, 1940s
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 'Flags of Our Fathers' 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 'Letters from Iwo Jima', which Clint Eastwood & Co. released two months after this to serve as a companion piece. Hopefully that's as good as this.
