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Well im a huge war movie fan. Movies based on war and history is probably 3/4's of my movie collection and this movie seemed to be the best war movie with the previews.


I'll be honest, it (to me) was an enourmous let-down. Being well educated on the attack of Iwo Jima Island, this movie really didnt even touch base on the factual side of the campaign itself. Its main focus was the factual side of the picture of the soliders rasing the flag which to me was a total upset seeing the previews led me and all 5 of my friends that came with me to a "Saving Private Ryan" like movie. It was more of a 'tear-jerker' and im sorry, but the set-up was way off. It would pop in and out of the war scenes (the war scenes was the BEST war footage and effects that I have ever seen in any war movie, EVER) but the constant switching to cool war scenes to a lame and boring side of the movie totally took away my hopes of a good movie.


I give it a generous 2.5 out of 5 stars. I would recommend you see it, but if your thinking its a Saving Private Ryan typew movie, be prepared for a complete upset.