Comments on: Movie Review – Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) http://commentarytrack.com/2007/01/24/review-letters-from-iwo-jima-2006/ movie reviews, news and discussion Thu, 17 May 2012 20:53:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: leomoviegoer http://commentarytrack.com/2007/01/24/review-letters-from-iwo-jima-2006/#comment-93 leomoviegoer Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:09:15 +0000 http://commentarytrack.com/2007/01/24/review-letters-from-iwo-jima-2006/#comment-93 Let's also not stress enough that Ken Wantanabe was excellent. I genuinely thought his perfomance was more superior than Forest Whittaker's in The Last King Of Scotland, along with Babel a whoefully overrated movie. This movie gets it right in terms of war films. It doesn't pull any punches and shows real human emotion, even from the enemy of a war. That speaks volumes in my book. Eastwood, though pushing 80, is in his prime as a director. That also speaks volumes as well. Let’s also not stress enough that Ken Wantanabe was excellent. I genuinely thought his perfomance was more superior than Forest Whittaker’s in The Last King Of Scotland, along with Babel a whoefully overrated movie.

This movie gets it right in terms of war films. It doesn’t pull any punches and shows real human emotion, even from the enemy of a war. That speaks volumes in my book. Eastwood, though pushing 80, is in his prime as a director. That also speaks volumes as well.

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