![]() ![]() This version is still yet to screen in the land of the rising sun. ![]() While it's battle scenes were laughably lifted stock footage from Tora! And Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Jack Smight's film was a hit in Japan because it depicted their military men as brave and resourceful. In a way, this Midway is the mirror-image of the 1976 movie of the same name that starred Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda and James Coburn. You just know that there are going to be frustrating near-misses, thaws in seemingly intractable relationships and "foreign language" scenes where the "bad guys" nefariously contemplate their next move. ![]() However, as soon as things come back down to Earth, that's when the ploddingly predictable seams of TV's Colony creator Wes Tooke's leaden script start to show. The dive-bombing sequences are truly thrilling, while the battle scenes grip and occasionally enthral. Directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima was released after Flags of our Fathers and works as a companion movie depicting the. Say one thing for Emmerich though, he certainly doesn't stint on spectacle. Letters from Iwo Jima is available on Netflix Canada. Instead, we have a quite impressive cast, that includes Woody Harrelson, Ed Skrein, Luke Evans, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Jonas and Dennis Quaid, emoting furiously and delivering big speeches, while Mandy Moore and others wait for updates on "their boys". ![]()
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