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The movie was a huge letdown. Eastwood didn't have to make a flick laden down with jingoistic sentimentality. What he did was worse. He made one that number one didn't retell the story of how the Marines took Iwo Jima and number two he made one that was overly sentimental in a liberal feelgood way. I guess if they would have advertised it that way, I wouldn't have felt so disappointed. It's not a war flick like "The Longest Day" and others like it.

Eastwood could have shown both the entire battle and the remorse of the soldiers who took part but he chose to devote just about the entire flick to the remorse and guilt felt by the flag-raising Marines on their post-Iwo bond drive. I saw so much of the bond drive sequences that I actually fastforwarded the movie to get through them. Too bad. Eastwood had a great opportunity and blew it.