Windtalkers
Two U.S. Marines in WWII are assigned to protect Navajo Marines who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.
18 August 1969, New York City, New York, USA
6 June 1963, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
1964, New Mexico, USA
5 April 1968, Linwood, New Jersey, USA
13 December 1924, Mariano Lake, New Mexico, USA
24 December 1971, Vestal, New York, USA
8 May 1963, Taipai, Taiwan
December 19, 2005
What we get is a surprisingly entertaining film, corny as it is at times, that could have suited John Wayne. [Published 5-13-02]December 06, 2005
This is the kind of film where you think you can predict everything that's going to happen upon the first shot and you spend the rest of the film praying that you're wrong. But it's fun getting there.October 07, 2004
I didn't expect a comedy.September 19, 2008
Replete with Cage's finest angsty acting and John Woo's requisite concerns of friendship and rivalry in the face of violence.November 06, 2002
The history is fascinating; the action is dazzling. They just don't work in concert.December 29, 2010
War film relies too much on relentless violence.July 20, 2002
It's the best new battle film since Black Hawk Down.September 19, 2008
A powerful premise turned into a stubbornly flat, derivative war movie.July 02, 2008
With Windtalkers, the glaring refutations of time, space and reality impress upon viewers the simple fact that Woo is at his best when he isn't attempting anything more significant than the most emptily satisfying explosion you're likely to enjoy - a scatJanuary 26, 2006
The screenwriters struggle to integrate the coded transmissions with the action, and the flamboyant set piece battles feel like so much empty rhetoric.June 19, 2002
A relentless, bombastic and ultimately empty World War II action flick.September 19, 2008
The energy and conviction of the action sequences don't quite compensate for Windtalkers' emotional cliches and historical heedlessness.