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Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

A companion piece to The Last Detail (written by Daniel Ponsican who co-scripted here) & directed by Richard Linklater details a trio of Vietnam vets escorting one of their sons home for burial who lost his life fighting in Iraq. Much like Detail, we get a sense of the lives lived since their wartime duty & how for some, things have moved forward while others are stuck in a perpetual cycle of pain & regret. A welcome vehicle for the 3 leads (Steve Carrell, Bryan Cranston & Laurence Fishburne) who perform w/the expertise & nuance you would expect. Another notch in Linklater's belt who at this point in his career seems unable to do no wrong.

Don't waste your time on this movie, it's so boring and the acting is bad

This was a movie made for those of us who came of age in the 1960s. If you had some military background, it is even more meaningful to you. It transitions from those "old days" to today in a unique way. Bryan Cranston is excellent in his role as an ex-Marine who was originally from New York as is Laurence Fishburne, the bad dud turned minister. Steve Carell's character says little, but he comes across well as an ex-Navy Corpsman type. The story line interweaves three men's camaraderie and experience with "the system" with today's military. The old veterans have that distrust of the US government which was prevalent in those who served during Vietnam or who came of age during that same time frame. That distrust carries over to more recent times with the lies that Carell's character "Doc" gets as the official story of how his only son dies as a Marine in Iraq. The three veterans all question what happened now and then, and find many answers along their way to their destination at a cemetery in New Hampshire. This is a well done film that I would also classify as a film that will have much more appeal to men than women, especially older guys in their late 60s or 70s. It is a lot better than many of the films that were nominated for Academy Awards this year (2018) and one of those films where you shake your head and say why no Oscar? It's a great film.

Every scene gives you new information, and every scene -- uniquely, barring Richard Linklater's own "Bernie" or Todd Solondz's recent triumph "Weiner-Dog" -- takes the trouble to put the people in places they could *afford*. What's so astonishing about this "bring it down to Earth" tactic is, you end up being more absorbed *and* awed by seeing it on the big screen (or, even, the little one -- in a way that's "cinematically encoded"). This picture goes to show, whatever it is to making movies, you can't just *do* it, and to have someone like Richard Linklater at the helm, who knows when to pull back or drop in, well, you find yourself responding to normally-corny "movie" tropes like shot-montages or establishing glimpses of places with a renewed sense of wonder. Terrific performances all around -- directors sometimes forget you have to give actors something to *do* (or is it screenwriters? producers?) and this is true all around the case: like they keep bringing out the best in each other. (Why hasn't someone cast Laurence Fishburne as a preacher? His oratory style alone is worth the price of admission!) Hard choices, never preachy, the movie lets the characters talk and is wary of soapboxing so you don't get thrown out of the film. And the director finds the perfect -- or, at least, perfectly *apt* -- place to end it. (This is the guy who made "Before Sunset," after all!)