War is madness, well that pretty much sums it up. This is not your typical war glorifying Hollywood story. This is not only a story about the harsh realities of war when it comes to money, numeral superiority and propaganda but also to what makes and breaks people and what they, the soldiers, become after the war is over.
On the downside I did not like the flickering story telling style of the movie, to much altering between past, present, iwo jima and the states.
I liked the ending of the movie; that although people go out at war for their country they fight and die for their friends.