Letters From Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood, 2006

Eastwood's foreign language epic is an ambitious and ultimately flawed effort, at once overly sentimental, deceptively Western, and stocked with characterizations all too familliar. Despite a well wrought first act, Iwo Jima is finally neither a triumph of the character of battle nor its tactical machinations, but rather an unsatisfying melange of the two.