The Flowers of War

I bought this film two nights ago after watching the trailer on IMDb again. What a amazing performance by all the actors, especially Mr. Nolan, who flexes his acting muscles much more in this film than in the Batman films. There were several scenes that almost had me crying (ALMOST) which is very rare--only Private Ryan and Wall-e have done that. Definitely a Drama, but a fair amount of action for those impatient people as well. Pacing is excellent until the very end, which I wasn't crazy about--I thought it ended rather abruptly. The directing was top notch as well, with only a couple scenes I wasn't crazy about (the CGI tank explosion) and only several very small errors I noticed on the first viewing (there will be more), an example being the stained glass of the church being broken and then appearing untouched later in the film.

Definitely suggest this for film buffs, one of the best of the year, very underrated and unnoticed, even with a star like Nolan.