TrueHello 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.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Michael N While I can see that the movie had in general some good actors and the dialogue was also all decent, the movie had really bad casting for the German soldiers, which actually would have made everything more believable. When telling a true story you need to have everything in it as real as possible. The English actors as German soldiers spoke such broken German, the first thing I thought was, WHY, why save money on that. Would you believe a story when the GI's were Asian looking? Would you believe if they had a Russian accent? No, you would not believe that they were really American soldiers. For that alone, I subtracted 5 stars, simply because it made the movie cheap looking. You can't tell a true story with fake facts.

Johan Dondokambey 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. That's quite bad because the story nicely tells details about the war. Each mini stories, particularly those linked to an item, proves to be of high emotional content. The contrast between the World War II stories and the more modern Iraqi Invasion war stories put this movie to a more realistic point in story-telling. Yet again the details about the war action got severely cut due to this movie is intended to be viewed by the whole family. The acting overall feels kind of bland. Individually, only James Cromwell did well to insert adequate emotion into his character through expressions. Not even John Cromwell achieved this in his World War II character.

candym1958 I was not going to watch this film. But I am ashamed to say I watched it because nothing else interested me. I was hooked within 15 minutes. My Grandfather was a WWII vet who served with Patton and fought at Normandy. I was so proud of my Grandfather he was a great man. I named my son his first great grandson after him. When they got older he told his war stories to my son's and myself. When he passed away in 2008 my son's inherited his Foot Locker plus a lot more from his time as a soldier. My son's and I treasure what he has left to them. My father on the other hand fought in Vietnam and refused to speak about his time there during his two tours of duty. He passed away in 2007 and we never will have the chance to learn about his time in the service. I honor both these men in my heart for the service that they gave this Country.

Kyle OMalley Memorial Day is not meant to be a "war" movie, it is a Veteran's story. Made with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, the intent was to convey to our families and friends the impact on the soul of going to war. It is not meant to glorify war, everyone who goes there comes back a lesser person in some ways. Enlightened yes, but all too often hardened also. Being a Veteran of several campaigns I don't see myself ever opening up to my immediate family but someday with time and a bit of distance from those tours of duty will be able to relate some of it to grandchildren as "Bud" Vogel/actor James Cromwell, the Grandfather in the movie did.This movie was helped by a lot of really good people helping to make it this far, and graced by historically significant WWII aircraft. The P38 Lightning is one of only a half dozen flying in the world, the P51 Mustang is one of only a handful that actually flew combat missions in WWII. Fagen Fighters of Granite Falls, Minnesota must be thanked for that. It was made with the invaluable contribution of the WWII Historical Reenactment Society, and many local MN Iraq Veterans used as background actors. It is a story of great significance, and if we can get it told I feel it will do immeasurable good in helping Veterans and their families come to terms with our current return to civilian life. And not least of all, it is a respectful homage to our passing WWII Veterans. In 10 yrs they will all virtually be gone. Our hopes are that the movie will help them, and Veterans of all wars, pass on their first hand experiences and witness to history.