Sunday, June 09, 2013

Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

The films follows the actions of a Marine squad in World War II. We see them receive training, then participate in the taking of Tarawa, and lastly in the taking of Iwo Jima.

Not a bad war movie. It has most of the right ingredients, including good action sequences. My main problem with the movie is that the screenplay is very formulaic: the characters, their problems, and their problems' resolutions comply, most of them anyway, to certain established and predictable dramatic patterns.

Rating: 52

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