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Max Goldberg at SF360: "Although Tom Stern's smoldered cinematography unquestionably links the two films, it's quickly apparent that Letters from Iwo Jima is much more of a linear, traditional combat film than its predecessor, and, as has been noted by most critics, this is generally to the benefit of the new film."
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"Letters From Iwo Jima is the true keeper and the one that will really stand the test of time long after Flags of Our Fathers fades from our memories," counters Edward Copeland.
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From top to bottom World War II Combat: Iwo Jima is a terrible game with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The worst review in a long time? 2006
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Whereas [Flags of Our Fathers] became a story of manufactured heroism, [Letters From Iwo Jima] is a poignant dirge for the defeated ....
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It follows the battle at Iwo Jima from the perspective of Easy Company, focusing on the men who raised the American flag on the island.
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Letters From Iwo Jima is "a sorrowful and savagely beautiful elegy that can stand in the company of the greatest antiwar movies."
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And going to Iwo Jima is a way for new Marines to imbue themselves with the spirit of the Corps.
Sulfur Island P. J. O'Rourke 2004
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Iwo Jima is not a place, we complained to one another, where you feel you're allowed to complain.
Sulfur Island P. J. O'Rourke 2004
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Iwo Jima is almost on the Tropic of Cancer, parboiled by the North Equatorial Current.
Sulfur Island P. J. O'Rourke 2004
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With the new film Letters from Iwo Jima telling the story of Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective - and, if this review is any indication, going out of its way to portray the Japanese as honourable - it's more important than ever to make sure we remember why the war was fought in the first place.
Daimnation!: "An entire nation glorying in their own depravity" 2006
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