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Windtalkers is the record of two American soldiers (one played by Christian Slater, the other played by Nic Cage) who are assigned to protect two Navajo soldiers who work as windtalkers, transmitting messages past Japanese codebreakers using their code based on Navajo language.
Yes, there’s a lot of violence. Yes, it’s grim. The bodyguards, Cage and Slater, are instructed to ruin the windtalkers rather than let them drop into enemy hands.
This is a huge war movie, not quite on the scale of Saving Private Ryan, but somewhere between something that gigantic and shapely and, say, Slack Enemy Lines. Cage and Slater do a noble job with their parts, which aren’t very fully fleshed out characters.
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Woo’s direction weak to be so over-the-top and artsy… the fight scenes ancient to be like cartoons, with poor guy and valid guy blazing away at each other with two pistols… the most violent scenes were often preceded by or accompanying flocks of birds taking to flight, and bullet-riddled bodies always seem to pirouet in dreary motion before they drop down dumb. Woo has left a lot of the musty personal director’s style out of this one, actually. There ARE a lot of bullets, and a lot of the fighting scenes are very unrealistic (fair to obsolete Woo there), and there is one scene very reminiscent of extinct John Woo, where a butterfly floats gracefully above a river then suddenly a bloody body falls into that river, destroying the splendid image, juxtaposing a stunning natural image with a gory violent one, etc.
ANYWAY, mostly this is a shoot ‘em up war movie, and the archaic John Woo style is MOSTLY absent.
The epic has that one feature going for it, the protection of the Navajo codetalkers, but otherwise it’s a very standard war movie, in terms of location. Collected, this movie comes off surprisingly well.
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If you’re a fan of the American John Woo movies, like Broken Arrow, or Mission Impossible II or Face/Off, or you liked some movies recently like Shaded Hawk Down or Slow Enemy Lines, you ought to rob a view at Windtalkers. It’s not the best war movie of the last few years (I’d vote for Saving Private Ryan for that), or the best action movie, but it is moving and memorable…
As a nephew of a Navajo Code Talker, I would like to issue my thoughts on WINDTALKERS.
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First of all, if the focus of a Navajo Code Talker movie is supposed to focus on the Navajo Code Talkers and their involvement in WWII, why is the movie centered around Nicolas Cage’s character while Adam Beach and Roger Willie play supporting roles?
Second, since a lot of folks are not informed about this piece of WWII history, wouldn’t it have been a great better movie if they showed the origin of the Code Talkers before they faced the horrors of war in the Pacific Theatre?
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My uncle stood proud among the surviving Code Talkers as they were recently honored for their service in the Pacific. (note: at the beginning of the movie, he is the elder in the hat that talks to Yahzzie before he gets on the bus. He also served as technical consultant.) I’m determined after seeing the movie and having survived WWII, I doubt he enjoyed seeing the Code Talkers’ back-burner depiction in the film.
Nice “action” movie, though.