by John Z.
“Last Flag Flying” is an emotional film, leaving many unanswered questions, and yet I believe done so on purpose. The film stars Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne as former Marines who served together in Vietnam. The character of Steve Carell looks for and finds his former Marines and asks them to go with him to pick up the body of his son, also a Marine who was killed overseas, to bring him back home and bury him. During the trip they reconnect and revisit a lot of the things they did while in Vietnam. This is a road trip but one with a somber purpose. The performances are excellent by all three stars. The film did have some long, drawn out moments but it was still very good. Was it anti-government? anti-religion, anti-military? Those are just some of the sentiments and questions that you ask yourself while watching it but at the end it still boils down to the tragedy of a parent losing his child. Great movie!
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