This was a great film, regardless of some poor acting by ancillary characters. Cromwells, bravo.
That was pretty much unbelievable because how many of us have a kindly old grandpa who lives in a white house with a picket fence around it. Most of the people I know from WW I through the Gulf War don't ever talk about their war experiences with "civilians".
Very powerful and moving and believable. Thank you to those that made this movie.
Should be required viewing for any/all young men when they're ready.
The film starts out just beautiful. I love films which uses simple effects in close ups combined with beautiful overview of the landscape.
Returning to the campsite where her brother disappeared years ago, a troubled woman and her friends find themselves the victims of a masked killer's blood-soaked rampage and try to solve the mystery of the killer's identity in order to get away from the area alive.This was an exceptionally uninspired slasher that doesn't have a lot going for it and isn't all that great.
Telling war stories over a movie that is predominantly a family movie is indeed hard as proved by this movie. There rises the challenge of whether to make the war depictions look realistic enough or not; holding back details which can be contradicting to the family movie's values.
This was a family story as much as a war story, mostly watchable due to the performances from James and John Cromwell. It does its best to tug at your heartstrings and make you feel for the characters, and ultimately I wish I had liked it more because Memorial Day has an important message to tell.
I was not going to watch this film. But I am ashamed to say I watched it because nothing else interested me.
