With the release of Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers quickly approaching, the early reviews have begun to appear online and they are positive.
Flags of Our Fathers Reviews
Extremely positive. That is the best way to describe the first reviews to appear for Flags of Our Fathers. I saw a special report on the film this weekend on Ebert & Roeper and, besides getting two thumbs up, Roeper couldn't stop talking about how great the film was.
Well, it looks like we are bound to agree, with more positive reviews appearing over at Variety and THR.
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." A pointed exploration of heroism -- in its actual and in its trumped-up, officially useful forms -- the picture welds a powerful account of the battle of Iwo Jima, the bloodiest single engagement the United States fought in World War II, with an ironic and ultimately sad look at its aftermath for three key survivors. This domestic Paramount release looks to parlay critical acclaim and its director's ever-increasing eminence into strong B.O. returns through the autumn and probably beyond.
THR
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."
Yet Eastwood packs the movie with action as tough and bloody as such benchmark films as "Saving Private Ryan," "Black Hawk Down" and "We Were Soldiers." Nor does he ever deny the sacrifice and achievements of the men who fought and died in the battle for Iwo Jima. So the movie should attract viewers across the political spectrum. Critical acclaim and year-end awards can only expand its potential boxoffice.
Check out both early reviews for Flags of Our Fathers by clicking the bold links above (new window).
Flags for Our Fathers comes to theatres
on October 20th.
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