Windtalkers

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Having earned Hollywood's respect with blockbusters like Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2, Hong Kong action master John Woo lends his signature style to serious World War II action in Windtalkers. Recognizing the long-forgotten contribution of Navajo "code talkers," whose use of an unbreakable Navajo-language radio code was instrumental in defeating the Japanese, the film serves as an admirable tribute to those Native American heroes. Unfortunately, it falls short of importance with its standard-issue story about a battle-scarred sergeant (Nicolas Cage) assigned to protect a code-talker (Adam Beach, from Smoke Signals), with unspoken orders to kill him if Japanese capture is imminent. This allows for an involving drama of hard-won friendship, but cardboard supporting characters suffer in the shadow of nonstop action that's as repetitious as it is technically impressive. Windtalkers is best appreciated as a more substantial vehicle for Woo's trademark ballet of bullets. --Jeff Shannon

Recently watched it. This movie was a joke. The Navajos were just background characters to an awful Nic Cage performance. They only spoke code twice, and I fail to understand the necessity to speak in code either time. They completely ignored the Japanese perspective of trying to crack the code, except for one quick 10 second scene.

It was pretty laughable how they used every war movie cliche known to man.

I would love to see a "real" movie made about the Navajo code talkers some day.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245562/

 

[Shane]

Quite possibly the worst war movie ever made IMO. Right up there with The Thin Red Line.

 

[Cardinals.Ken]

Maybe this will fill your need.

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[Bada0Bing]

Sweet, it looks like my library has that. I'll check it out, thanks.

 

[UncleChris]

Quite possibly the worst war movie ever made IMO. Right up there with The Thin Red Line.

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[Pariah]

Thin Red Line was great, IMO. Not every war movie needs to be a break-neck blockbuster.

JMHO

 

[Bada0Bing]

Maybe this will fill your need.

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Recently watched this. Fascinating stuff, thanks for the recommendation.

 

[Mulli]

Yeah, it was bad. I just tried to watch Big Red One. Now that was a cheezy movie.