from all the bad comment about this movie and add them up i feel the same way . it may look like the australian be weakling instead they be brave soldier . in this film it be very terrible and too graphic . i do not see enough heroism just more cowardice which be ashame because it nothing from what i read . we do not need the extremity of violence like that we can use our vivid imagination of what they go through . it like save private ryan where the nazi be push his knife slowly in the soldier . for example mel gibson be a over extreme director for his movie not because of the violence but for the level of historical inaccuracy . letter of iwo jima be one of the war film that be close enough to history ( although i could be wrong ) except flag of our father and bridge of the river kwai . youre well off read it it an insult to the victim and the fall if you do not tell it right and and the movie drag on for too long there be nothing interest about the dialogue and not enough retribution from the aussie to kill japanese soldier . just read history on the internet and mag and in book . movie always kill the sense of realization . what they do to pows in singapore and the philippine be just dreadful escpically to civilian . it just make me feel proud to see goody beat the baddie but movie like this ruin it .