Here are some reviews for a movie: 1. In the 40's, American movies showed Japanese saying 'Banzai.' Total vocabulry. Finally, a picture that shows Japanese soldiers as human beings.
2. Clint Eastwood's revisionism painting America in a bad light and turning Imperial Japan's barbaric soldiers into boon chaps won't change the facts.
3. Letters is quality from first frame to last, a war film that is almost a tone poem.
4. Many will find it to be a critics darling, languid and lacking in humor. But for me, it was a powerful experience.
5. Clint Eastwood performed the year's most ambitious and original cinematic feat in making a pair of companion films about the significance of the battle at Iwo Jima and the ways in which the Japanese and American governments treated that pivotal engagement
6. Eastwood has achieved another impressive cinematic coup, making the type of classic war film we all knew he was capable of making.
7. A strikingly well-made film that states its case subtly and without compromise.
8. One may argue with Eastwood's filmmaking strategies but the general just gravitates toward blazing new movie trails;it's in his genetic makeup as much as in his ammo belt.
9. It takes a filmmaker of uncommon control and mature grace to say so much with so little superfluous movement, and Eastwood triumphs in the challenge.
10. ...A unique, bifocal view of ground war -- the men who fight it, the propaganda attending it, the awful way it ends.

What was the overall consensus about the movie?
A powerfully humanistic portrayal of the perils of war, this companion piece to Flags of our Fathers is potent and thought-provoking, and it demonstrates Clint Eastwood's maturity as a director.