Solid Acting -- Longevity is where film falters

Rating: 5/10 (21 March 2018)

Three dynamic characters come together to bury the son of Doc Shephard (Carell). Each representing a facet of war. Sal (Cranston), representing how he is still very much a soldier in the war. Shephard, defining the loss that war brings, and Rev. Mueller (Fishburne), characterizing the length a man will go to in order to conceal his past life of a soldier. From the time these three characters meet for the first time in decades and the time they spend with one another represent the power of camaraderie and offer some funny scenarios. For instance, Sal and Mueller renting a u-haul, all three at a phone store etc.
However, the length of the movie wherein lies the falter. I found myself struggling through some dim scenes to make it to the end. An hour and a half through felt like two hours and so on. It requires a significant amount of patience. In the end, not only did I deem most of it forgetful, but was finding moments left and right that could have been pulled from the final project to make it shorter.
It takes the three a lifetime to make it to Dover, New Hampshire for the funeral as much as it takes the viewer to finish a film that could have already ended with getting its point across.