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Do war movies get any better than this? Puts you right there, in all the graphic realism that comes with war. But not just any war movie, this story spins a great tale that follows Hanks and his crew looking for and saving Ryan (Pitt). If you like war movies, this is a must-see.

A raw depiction of what it was like in Somalia. No glamor here. The peace-keepers had it really rough fighting the entrenched warlords. The movie paints the picture of an American Army facing desperate odds trying to get a job done and saving fallen comrades amidst a whirlwind of violence and mayhem. See this movie, and you will really understand why peacekeeping can be much more treacherous than fighting a traditional war.

A fact-based retelling of Operation Market Garden, Richard Attenborough's star-studded film suffers from its multiplicity of famous actors, and reminded this reviewer a little too much of Malick's "Thin Red Line" (except Attenborough's view of war does not match dead soldiers with injured birds). All in all, what was supposed to make this film a success instead ends up causing it to backfire, remaining a rather epic and mildly interesting re-enaction of the risky and dangerous WW2 operation.

Letters from Iwo Jima is the stunning coda to Flags Of Our Fathers, this time from the Japanese side. Amongst other revelations, it shows how poorly served were the Imperial Japanese soldiers, not by their gallant and honorable commander, but by the suicidal tendencies of their martial traditions.

Director Clint Eastwood made "Flags Of Our Fathers":http://www.viewguide.com/movie_reviews/6 before Letters from Iwo Jima, so that's the ideal order in which to view them.