Windtalkers (Special Director's Edition)

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Director John Woos sensibilities have always run to the pulpy, comic book side of the cinematic equation, resulting in the yin of visually gripping, eye candy action sequences--and the yang of less than believable emotional content. Thats been fine when the material hes tackling is the sort of intense but flight-of-fancy fluff such as Face/Off (1997) and Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), but here Woo is depicting a subject of enormous historical, social and political importance to the world. Despite a noticeable restraint compared to his other work (the filmmaker clearly realizes that hes in somewhat uncharted territory here), Windtalkers (2002) is simply the wrong script for him. He carefully builds a quartet of protagonists with real-life fears and inner lives, then proceeds to turn them into full-fledged killing machine warriors, capable of piling up literally hundreds of enemy bodies to a man, his vision of American soldiers so skewed that its as if the film wanders from Saving Private Ryan (1998) territory into the realm of science fiction. It also doesnt help that many of the second-half locations are clearly southern California and not the tropical island setting theyre doubling for, or that the windtalking of the Navajo heroes is really a sideline to the character arc of Joe Enders Nicolas Cage, only peripherally involved in the code language activities that are supposedly the subject of the film. From The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) through Steel Helmet (1951) to Ryan, the best images of WWII have always been stark, raw and uncomfortably, even brutally real, but Windtalkers forgets that, presenting a graphic and exciting but, at times, absurdly phony Rambo-level vision of war that does its veterans and victims no great service by amping up their heroics to superhero level. The audience is more than aware by now that the participants in these battles were all quite heroic enough without Woos help. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

On the DVD
ccPersonal on-camera introduction by the director
3 audio commentary tracks
Historical documentary
WWII tribute
Multi-view feature
Scene diaries
"Actors' Boot Camp" featurette
Photo gallery
English 5.1 Surround
French Stereo Surround
English, French, Spanish & Portuguese language subtitles
Special features subtitled in French, Spanish & Portuguese

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Most helpful customer reviews   2.0 out of 5 stars emotional, but lacking, Jun 30 2004 By  Beepsie - See all my reviews This review is from: Windtalkers (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD) 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 time? the characters are static, though the Navajos are slightly more dynamic; there was little background info. too much bombs and shooting throughout, and i especially did not like the melodramatic part when Enders killed Whitehorse along with the Japs and then told Yahzee,"I killed him. I threw a bomb and blew him up," acting so sarcastic, wanting to provoke and die. finally, the code language should have been featured more. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   2.0 out of 5 stars ful of stereotypes!, Jun 22 2004 By  Vahania63 (Michigan United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Windtalkers (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD) It is a well done typicall Hollywood movie but I have seen all this so many times. Everything is so predictable. The movie with such great actors as Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater doesn't have any material for them to work with. I was shocked that such inventive director as John Woo could make such lame movie. Not recommended. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   1.0 out of 5 stars I Wonder What the Wind Would Say, Jun 14 2004 By  V. Marshall (North Fork, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    This review is from: Windtalkers (Widescreen/Full Screen) (DVD) First of all I will say that the importance of the concept for this film is necessary and much overlooked. The involvement of American Indians in war is sadly left out of too many history books. I was hoping this film would be better than it turned out to be. The historical facts should be recoginized along side all of the other celebrations of war heroes. Sadly this film was a complete bomb. The direction was predictable and the action scenes could have been shot by a five year old boy playing "war hero" in the backyard, alot of noise and piles of dust and actors pretending to be dead. All this with the constant drone of a musical score best left for a karoke bar to hum along to. And what happened to Nicolas Cage? He used to be a great actor with individual style and presentation. It seems that he just keeps slipping away. I just was not convinced of his "hero" ability in this film....and his death scene is almost the most horrendous I have ever witnessed, not for the gore or emotional impact, but because it was simply awful acting! Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 150 customer reviews...		Most recent customer reviews 1.0 out of 5 stars Windtalkers This DVD is not widescreen . And I need all my DVDs widescreen because I have a windscreen TV. Went to Hasting all of Windtalkers DVD are both widescreen and Fullscreen. Read more Published on May 30 2004 by Jim C. Bristow 2.0 out of 5 stars Great idea, inept movie 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... Read more Published on May 18 2004 by M. Veiluva 2.0 out of 5 stars Whats happened to John Woo?? Everything is here for me to have a very enjoyable movie experience. Nic Cage, Christian Slater, John Woo, a war movie dealing with US Marines....so what happened. Read more Published on May 11 2004 by SGECKO67 4.0 out of 5 stars Flawed but Important Look at a lesser fact in World War 2. A Captain of the Marines (Oscar-Winner:Nicolas Cage) during World War 2 is assigned to protect the Navajo Cipher (Adam Beach & Roger Willis), who they are the Codetalkers. Read more Published on April 29 2004 by Christian Pelchat 5.0 out of 5 stars If you need the facts go read a book ! This is all out WWII action ! If you have a T.V. bigger than 19 inches plugged into surround sound with a much needed subwoofer you will not be disapointed ! Read more Published on April 20 2004 by Steven Rhodes 1.0 out of 5 stars Skip this one! I really like war movies, but this one was hard for me to sit through. The concept of the movie was fine but the movie was so poorly done. Read more Published on April 18 2004 by AdamYYZ 1.0 out of 5 stars Needs more Navajo talking Why is it called Windtalkers? It only has about 2 scenes of Navajo talking. When I saw it I thought it going to have a lot of code in it. This movie should be called Notalkers! Published on April 12 2004 by D. Brown 1.0 out of 5 stars One of the Fifty Worst Films of All Time... If you really want to find out more about this film, go to the "See All Reviews" link at the end of the following reviews, select the link, and when the next page... Read more Published on Feb 26 2004 by Thomas F. Redmond 1.0 out of 5 stars Windtalkers Disappointing to say the least. This WAS NOT a factual film....this was an insult to the Brave Men who gave their lives and saved thousands. Read more Published on Feb 18 2004 1.0 out of 5 stars It blowed up real good!! I love World War II action films, but I can't tell you how much I hated this movie. There's absolutely nothing redeemable about it. Read more Published on Feb 14 2004 by Skip Jones Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 150 customer reviews...

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