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2.0 out of 5 stars Great idea, inept movie, May 18 2004

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M. Veiluva "sputnik99" (Walnut Creek, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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The premise of "Windtalkers" is actually quite good, and loosly based upon actual WW2 history. What's true is that the US Marines did use Navaho speakers to code messages in the Pacific theater of action. The second premise of the movie, namely that they were assigned individual guardians (in this movie, Nicholas Cage and Christian Slater) to kill them if they were being captured, I'm not so sure about. I guess, as John Woo has it, that's why if there was a battle, these guys were right in front begging to be captured.

The movie starts out with a nice idea, but is utterly destroyed by the movie's lack of realism and unimaginitive plot, which buries the two Native Americans in a stunningly shallow film in which they are seconds. As best I can tell, Hollywood has decided that war movies fall into one of two categories: Private-Ryan realism or "Pearl Harbor" shazaam-special effects. "Windtalkers" plants itself firmly in the latter category - a Pearl Harbor with Marines.

Granades go of like miniature A-bombs, with big all consuming fireballs (which, of course, Marines get to outrun). Aircraft are cheezy digital things that fly like Starcraft space fighters. Uniforms are all wrong. The Japanese stupidly charge into our waiting guns. When people got shot, I thought of "Kill Bill"- you'll know what I mean. But that was camp and this is supposed to be serious.

We don't even get to like Nicholas Cage, a fine actor who has nothing to do but act anguished all the time (compare his nuanced performance in "Matchstick Men") and charge Japanese bunkers with his Thompson, which never misses and never runs out of ammunition, repeatedly like some faux-John Wayne. The two Navaho characters are noble and handled like wooden dolls.

The outdoor scenes look implausibly like the north coast of Kauai or the hills near Ventura - not Saipan. When the Marines storm a Saipan village, the villagers, apparently oblivious to the war up to that point, are still trotting about doing their village things. What did the Japanese extras think when they were doing this film? Or when one of the Navaho characters puts on a Japanese helment and sneaks behind the lines because he "looks Japanese?" We had better ideas than this on out 5th grade playground.

Parents: The movie is rated "R" for violence, and some language (one half hour of the Dave Chappelle show will bury this one). The violence is so comic-book that anyone over 11 can deal with it. To my surprise, my teenagers declared the movie incompetent after twenty minutes and returned to their homework.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Windtalkers, Mar 10 2011

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Evan Keough - See all my reviews

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The movie is definately worth the watch. It has good battle scenes and an interesting story and now conveniently it's on blu ray. If you havent seen it already feel free to do so.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Review of product, Aug 31 2010

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I received this item in good time and good condition. If there every happens to be a chance to order any other product from this sender, I would not hesitate to order. This movie was ecellent. Thanks

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2.0 out of 5 stars emotional, but lacking
i admit, it made me cry - but what ever happened to the lady nurse who helped Joe Enders pass his hearing test in order to be able to go back to war, and was writing him all the... Lisez davantage

Published on Jun 30 2004 by Beepsie

2.0 out of 5 stars ful of stereotypes!
It is a well done typicall Hollywood movie but I have seen all this so many times. Everything is so predictable. Lisez davantage

Published on Jun 22 2004 by Vahania63