Given multiple reviews about 1945 ['movie'] ['Pride of the Marines'], each offering insights, opinions, or criticisms on a single topic, merge them into a single, cohesive review. When reviews offer opposing viewpoints, ensure that both perspectives are represented in a balanced way. Structure the text to flow smoothly, weaving different points together to create a well-rounded summary. Ensure the text remains clear and easily understandable by removing any jokes, insider references, or quotes.Aim for a polished and engaging tone, creating a review that feels comprehensive and reflects the diversity of opinions. The text should be very long. Here the given reviews: ["Garfield in peak form John Garfield as the real-life World War II hero Al Schmid gives perhaps his most subtle and nuanced screen performance. Playing a fully realized character with an emotional arc instead of his usual mercurial, Depression-bruised archetype, Garfield eschews the mannered excesses to which he often brought to inferior material. The film itself is a sharply observed, deeply felt biopic about a combat veteran and his period of readjustment after being blinded in action on Guadalcanal. Garfield's Schmid is a forty-buck-a-week factory worker, a jaunty, macho Average Joe, and the first half-hour traces his romance with working-class Jane Eleanor Parker (whose proletarian pretenses can't disguise her tony roots). Despite some sitcom-witty repartee and Parker's cloying nobility, the relationship is effectively (and appealingly) charted. It's all a set-up for the film's final hour in which Schmid holes up in a veteran's hospital, refusing to return home to the imagined charity of his loved ones. What threatens to be overly lachrymose becomes affectingly low-key in Garfield's controlled hands. Without resorting to raging tantrums or a raised voice, Garfield conveys bitterness with blank, downcast eyes and a careful emphasis on dialog -- the way he spits out the word 'pity' almost makes it sound obscene. In his most eloquent moment he barely says a word. During a protracted bout of proselytizing in the hospital ward, a gaggle of wounded vets gripes about their dim future while director Delmer Daves cuts to close-ups of Garfield silently betraying a perverse satisfaction at the communal self-pity. Amidst all the polemical chatter the visual understatement is devastating. Despite an occasional misstep (Garfield's dream scene is hokey and far too literal), Daves' direction is assured and textured. His handling of the action on Guadalcanal is particularly impressive, a harrowing twenty-minute firefight set in a cramped foxhole that stands as one of the bleakest, most terrifyingly visceral combat scenes ever committed to celluloid; you can almost smell the stench of blood, sweat and other bodily fluids emanating from that godforsaken hellhole. With Dane Clark, bursting with energy and overacting up a storm as if angling to steal the spotlight from an atypically reserved Garfield. No way, no how. "] Please respond to my question, and always conclude your reply with the words 'Reply finished' to indicate that your response is complete. Ensure that the text is fully formed without any placeholders such as '[Conclusion]' or '[Placeholder]'. Make sure the reply is fully contained before these words and is not cut off prematurely. Thank you.