Review of Memorial Day

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.