Flags of Our Fathers

So i saw "Flags of Our Fathers" from 2006, and directed by legendary film maker Clint Eastwood. I have always personally hated Clint Eastwood, not because of his movies mind you, wait wait wait this is starting to sound like the last review I just did, deja vu? No it is because Flags of our fathers is the companion piece to the far superior Letters From Iwo Jima, both were released in 2006. So is it good well I say ehhh. So why is this one only a 6.5 on an Imdb scale for me (an ehhh on my scale), and not an 8 like "letters", well I don't know. This movie had good acting, and the story was interesting, but it just didn't do it for me. It is not a bad movie per se, it just didn't work for me. The action sequences are beautifully shot, the directing is at the hands of a master of his craft, it just didn't vibe for me as much as letters from Iwo Jima. I did like how the movie sort of exposed that the celebrity of the men, that the government claimed were the men in that famous photo, was sort of manufactured to inspire patriotism. Look, if you like watching war movies I think this movie will not disappoint. And I think it is worth seeing especially with its companion, if for no other reason than to compare and contrast the two starkly different perspectives and portrays of the same event.