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Last Flag Flying reunites three friends thirty years after they served together in Vietnam: former Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Steve Carell), and marines Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston) and Reverend Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne), to bury Doc’s son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
In the hands of writer/director Richard Linklater, this should be a decent movie, but on the basis of the trailer, it looks rather like a bog-standard “getting old timers together for the sake of it” movie, and we’ve seen enough of that in recent times with Last Vegas and the remake of Going In Style. Hence, I hope there’s more to this than as it first appears.
Last Flag Flying is released in the US on November 3rd, but as of yet there’s no UK date.
Also stars: Yul Vazquez, Samuel Davis, Kate Easton
Check out the trailer below and click on the above image for the full-size version:
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