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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Simply A Masterpiece

As Good As It Gets

Remember those old wartime films with all star casts and optimistic plots? Well, forget about all that. Clint Eastwood will show you war as it is: pure hell with limbs and heads and guts flying around. And don't kid yourself that those who come back home can actually enjoy it. This film is impossible to enjoy. The best part is the ending - after the credits roll. And you can actually sit through the credits because the beautiful music and photography will heal the shell shock caused by some of the previous scenes.

Not every Clint Eastwood film is a classic, and that's how I felt about Flags of our Fathers. The film depicts the invasion of Iwo Jim in WW2 and follows the lives of several men involved with the raising of the American flag. This flag picture is perhaps the most famous war picture in American history, symbolizing victory over Japan. But the story seemed hard to follow. There's an older guy narrating for a while and I'm still not sure who he was. Then another guy, and finally a less older person. Or maybe there were only two. It confused me. There were so many men killed that it was hard to remember who was who. Maybe that was the point - that the war was horrible and impossible to track. But it didn't make for easy film following.There were eventually 3 main character who the film focused on, and we learned a bit about them, but not really enough history. Doc seems to be the main character. it would have been good to learn more, but alas, with all the other history going on, it wasn't done.In the end, you know what you knew. War sucks. People die. We honor those who gave their lives for us. And a son loved his Dad, and learned how incredible he was. Yes, that was good, but getting there, well, it took a long circuitous route with too many detours to unimportant details. Flags was OK, but not special. Enjoy.

The companion picture to the more acclaimed Letters From Iwo Jima is certainly the weaker of the pair. This side of the story isn't as interesting, though it has its moments. There's no doubt that it has great production, merging design with special effects seamlessly and hitting an astonishing scale. It mixes well with the saturated cinematography, but you can't help that it feels far too derivative of Saving Private Ryan's gruelling opening act, surely caused by perhaps the revisionist influence of producer Steven Spielberg. However, the real problem is that it struggles to find eyes to see the story through. Not choosing a protagonist isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it's been done well in The Thin Red Line, Black Hawk Down and Band of Brothers, but Flags Of Our Fathers is such a mish-mash of one dimensional characters that it ends up hard to follow. Given that creative choice, the nonlinear narrative was a mistake, leaving the film to meander to its point about heroism in war. It's a good point, but one in a grey area and doesn't seem to flesh out the iconic picture as much as it wants to. I should revisit Letters From Iwo Jima but I know it won't be a pleasant experience.6/10

There is nothing honorable about dying, when it comes to dying in war, it's better not to die at all. So wrote the great author Eric Marie Remarque. Now two further authors come to the same conclusion. James Bradley and Ron Powers, together with Noted Director Clint Eastwood, have created this moving tribute to the soldiers who died on the island of Iwo Jima. In this film Eastwood revisits the tiny Vocanic island, the carnage, savagery and the countless deaths, through the lives of several men. Adam Beach plays Ira Hayes, the Pima Indian who's memories of the war kept him in pain till his ignoble death of exposure in a roadside ditch. Ryan Phillippe plays the Corpsman John "Doc" Bradley. Jesse Bradford (Rene Gagnon), Barry Pepper and Paul Walker, Hank Hansen make up the soldiers in his squad. Throughout the movie the audience is reminded of the sacrifice the marines gave and it's well to remember that in 1968 the politicians gave back the island to Japan, without a shot being fired. Adam Beach steal the story as he did in a second film of his called 'Code Talkers.' However, the entire cast should be commended and we can chalk up another triumph for Eastwood. Well Done. ****