Synopsis
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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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
Recommendations
- 100
The Hollywood Reporter
Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers does a most difficult and brave thing and does it brilliantly. It is a movie about a concept. Not just any concept but the shop-worn and often wrong-headed idea of "heroism." - 100
Time
Clint Eastwood has crafted a bold and meticulous epic. - 100
Village Voice
To an extent, Flags of Our Fathers is to the WWII movie what Eastwood's Unforgiven was to the western -- a stripping-away of mythology until only a harsher, uncomfortable reality remains. - 90
Variety
Ambitiously tackling his biggest canvas to date, Clint Eastwood continues to defy and triumph over the customary expectations for a film career in Flags of Our Fathers. - 90
Newsweek
An epic both raw and contemplative, is neither a flag-waving war movie nor a debunking. - 88
Rolling Stone
A film of awesome power and blistering provocation. - 75
ReelViews
Character development is of secondary importance to narrative and theme. As a result, we never really get to know any of the film's protagonists. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
The trouble is, he's preaching to the choir -- or, at least, to a culture, profoundly influenced by Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation" and Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan," that has already absorbed the lesson that ''the Good War,'' while it may have been noble, was never less than hell.
