"Letters from Iwo Jima" **** (out of four): Clint Eastwood has done it again, creating a companion piece for his "Flags of our Fathers" that not only enriches the original but stands on its own as one of our most powerful and unique war movies.

During one of the many moving moments in “Letters from Iwo Jima”, Clint Eastwood’s second film based on that pivotal World War II battle, Japanese officers read a letter off the dying body of an American soldier. The letter is from his mother. She tells her son to “do what’s right, because it is right”. The Japanese men remark that their mothers give them the same advice. It’s a quiet moment, but it says it all – about men, about politics, about war. It also says a lot about Clint Eastwood. The man whose “Flags of our Fathers” covered Iwo Jima from the American point of view, now turns his camera to the other side of the battle lines, and it results in one of our most powerful and unique war movies.

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