I think you guys are charging off half cocked.
Clint isn't into revisionism. This is the other side of an epic battle. He tells the first side in Flags of Our Fathers.
As a student of the war in the Pacific, I will really want to see this.
Japanese soldiers were ruthless. But that had more to do with how they got into the trenches in the first place. Not excusing their barbarity, but their society was still feudal thinking and barbarity in warfare was just another day at the beach for them. That notwithstanding, knowing what they were thinking is fascinating. From a historians point of view, I hope he is the same old Clint from yesteryear and just lets the pieces fall.
I've heard that he does just that and it isn't anti American at all.
We'll see.
Charging off half-cocked is FR's favorite sport.
I wasn't happy with the "fiction" Clint inserted into Flags of our Fathers...it's only purpose was to portray America has a terrible country.
I saw the movie and thought it was pretty good. I personally feel the Japanese military was subhuman but not all the Japanese. The only mistake I saw in the movie was when the dud round landed next to the guy dumping the honey pail. The color coding was wrong on the projectile and the rotating bands were not engraved, meaning it had not been fired.