 you worry too much that's why your hair went so great could you resist the man in this uniform I don't think I could be there for your brothers yeah that's all it really matters okay you want to play let's play you trying to get me killed I will bury your ass mule has arrived last flag flying my name is Brennan Keith Avery and this is just my opinion hey guys thank you very much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for last flag flying I really do appreciate it but before we get into the view click that subscribe button click the bell so you'll be notified and give me that thumbs up let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes so now we have last flag flying and what it's about is three friends that reunite after 30 years that served in the Vietnam War that are coming together because one of them son died in the Iraq war and they have to bury him now these three friends are Lawrence Fishburn Steve Carell and Brian Cranston three very very very popular men in Hollywood right now and it's also being directed by Richard Linkler now if you're familiar with Richard Linkler's work he did boyhood which came out a few years ago and did get a lot of recognition in the war season and the brilliant thing about that film is that I think it was filmed over a 12-year period focusing on just one boy and kind of just like follow his life you know each summer a summer and I just kind of melded all together and one film and that's like unprecedented I don't think any movie has taken that long to film and that's just like a hell of a dedication that they put towards that movie which you know which gives which makes me give Richard Linkler a lot of respect another movie that he did was with Jack Black that came out a few years ago by the name of Bernie which is a true story and I actually remember when that movie was first advertised I had absolutely no interest in seeing it or whatever but my mom saw it she loved it and she recommended and I loved it too it's a great cute little movie based on a true story I mean the thing is just adorable I can easily say that Bernie is possibly in my top 200 favorite movies of all time you may be like Brandon 200 that's a lot but you know I see a lot of movies and I collect a lot but anyway you got Richard Linkler and then you have these three gentlemen Lawrence I said Lawrence Cranston Lawrence Fishburn Brian Cranston and Steve Correll and then you're they're reuniting because they have to bury Steve Correll's son and I will say this movie is being marketed as a comedy drama and war and that is a very good description or you know I guess three words to describe the film because it is funny it does have to do with war and it is drama but at the same time it's just kind of hard to mix those three elements together without the film being too daunting and I liked the film for the most part but there was one caught in the sand that just kind of brought the film down that I will touch on in a second but easily the best thing of the film is the comedy you know seeing these three gentlemen from a completely different walks of life reuniting 30 years later I mean they're completely different from when they were like 18 19 20 years old and it's just very funny me you have one character who is a now a pastor you have one that owns a bar and then you have another one where we really don't even know what he no we do know what he does he's a stocking clerk and I don't I don't want to pick a part which each you know who is who you'll just have to see the movie for yourself but you probably already know that from the trailers and whatnot but the best thing about this movie is just seeing them how so different that they are when they come together but they still have something to like relate to and that is their bond that they built in the Vietnam war 30 years ago and you know that's just hands down that's the best thing of the movie I was laughing my behind off just seeing them you know being themselves it's not like they were just cracking jokes it is men being man in their late you know 50s or you know 60s or whatever and I ate up every moment of it but this movie is also but while it's also funny this movie is also sad because you know there's some great acting especially it well I'll go ahead and tell you it was Steve Carell son is the one that died and of course Steve Carell is one is mostly known as a funny person and you know 40-year-old version and you know Anchorman Anchorman two and all that the legend of Ron Burgundy I can get all that but he can really act behind off and really present you know true dramatic effect on screen and he really did do that here there was times in the movie where he made me laugh and there was time so I was like oh my gosh dude like I feel so sorry for you I mean this is horrible I mean there's one scene in particular towards the beginning to where it's like oh man how am I gonna make it through this you know any any parent or you know loved one out there that has lost somebody in war you're gonna be able to relate to this a lot and empathize with the characters like seriously you know it is it is very sad towards the end of the movie when the critics were hitting there was some people in the film not in the film but in the audience with me they were crying you know there was kind of I kept hearing sniffling and you know you know all of this right there and for some reason the film did not affect me that way and I hate to be insensitive what I'm about to say and first I just want to thank you thank say thank you to all the men and women in their families that have died for this country and protected us you know thank you very much and I said protected us too and I'll touch on that as well because I this movie does not clearly state if this is a true story or not but it's taking place in 2004 so I don't know if it's an exaggeration of the truth if you do know that please let me know in the comment section below but while you know the movie is very funny in the beginning and it's funny throughout it is also very sad because you know he's lost his son and he has to bury him and he's not handling it well at all but the biggest mistake in this movie that just brings us down all the way to maybe this could have got recognized in Oscar season or something like that is that the movie is way too long it is comes in at two hours and four minutes and they could have easily easily easily knocked 30 minutes off of this movie and it just would have been fine it still would have had a great impact but I was sitting I don't mean to sound insensitive but I was just like oh my gosh can this movie already in like why are you putting these unnecessary scenes in this movie we have the premise we have the plot we have the story we have the characters we know their objective and we know where they're going they're going trying to go from a to b but instead they want to go to a 1 a 7 a 23 a 19 just gets go from a to b and they just keep throwing these scenes in there so the very beginning of the movie Steve Carell finds Brian Cranston and then these two go gentlemen go and find Lawrence Fishburne and Steve Carell is kind of basically just letting them know what his situation is and hey my son died you know we need to go you know get the body and you know I want to bury him and da da da da but once they get to the once they get to the body which in the nearly the first act of the film there's really no movie left to tell other than you need to get to the burial site and bury the movie and while they're doing that I mean of course there's going to be you know crazy mishaps him and their doing their journey but it was just too many and it was just completely unnecessary and I just did not understand why when I saw what was today Friday I saw this last night Thursday at an early screening and the movie started as it was scheduled to start at 7 p.m. central standard time and it did start at 7 p.m. central standard time and I just remember sitting I'm just like oh my gosh this movie feels so long what the crap is going on and I've never done this and but this is the first for me I actually got I don't want to you know if you pull your phone down in the screening or whatever they're most likely to kick you out or the security will come and like charge you up in front of everybody really just so you don't want to do that that's bad so what I did is I got out of my seat crossed the aisle went all the way down the stairs and went to like the little hallway over turn my phone on because I just had to know what time it was because like this film just seemed like an eternity I turned my phone on and it said 834 and I'm just like oh my gosh we've only been watching this movie for an hour and a half or an hour and 34 minutes how long is this movie so I real quick and I was still paying attention to the movie I went to IMDB real quick and saw that it came in it was at 124 minutes so two hours and four minutes I was like damn we got 30 more minutes left and so I cut my phone back off went to my seat you know and I tried to enjoy the rest of the movie but the movie is enjoyable for the most part there are were a ton of people in this theater that enjoyed it much then I did I can tell just by the way that they were you know reacting with the size and the crying and whatnot you know and it did not affect me that way I've cried in movies before I've cried I cried in that movie warrior the MMA movie that came and I think seven years ago in 2013 with gosh I forgot his name Tom Hardy I forgot the I forgot but I cried in that movie but it just didn't pull my emotional heartstrings like it did for everybody else it was a great move I love the characters I love the way they interacted with each other it was funny it was sad and it kind of had an abrupt ending as well but that this movie was as far too long and it really just you know man it could have been so much better but it was just too long it was I was ready to go I don't mean to sound insensitive but because I mean I would have probably given this movie like an 8.5 or 9 if they were to cut you know some time down but I'm gonna have to bring this down to what I want to get this movie I'm gonna give it a 7 out of 10 yes a 7 out of 10 but guys that's just my opinion have you seen last flag flying or do you want to see it have I turned you on have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section below let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing if you liked this video go ahead and give me the thumbs up and if you don't like the video that's fine just leave me a comment below why and still give me the thumbs up since you're watching this on YouTube go ahead and subscribe to my YouTube channel become one of my subscribers so you can get all the content that I have to provide and also click the bell so you can be notified when I do make uploads also go to my 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