As of today, I am inaugurating a new genre of film. Yes, I am, with no authorization whatsoever, going to institute a new category. We have thrillers, chick flicks, action movies, comedies, dramas, and many others. But we need one more. So, we will...
Pros: Adam beach, Roger Willie, Slater and Cage. John Woo's directing, and the theme Cons: Violence. Scarcity of dialog, and the way Ender's character is written
Of all the new releases I have seen lately Windtalkers has been the most criticized, and the least appreciated. Yet, of all the war movies I have seen in the recent past, this one was the one that hit the hardest. And I’ll have to go against...
Pros: Learn something new about WWII Cons: Dialogue, overdone action, lame, lame, lame
Windtalkers is a disappointing World War II movie about a lesser-known aspect of the war. During the raids on Japanese islands, Navajo Indians were brought in to speak a version of their own native language, and the Japanese were never able to break...
Warning: I’m going to give away major details. If you don’t want to know anything before you see the movie, then don’t read this review yet. You may have heard of the Enigma, which was a nearly unbreakable code used by the Germans during ...
Pros: A few entertaining wartime jolts. Cons: Patronizing, pedestrian, painfully predictable.
Yet another movie lesson we don't need:
'How Genres Recycle'
The painful deluge of sex comedies that's washed through the theaters over the past two years can be directly attributed to the popularity of American Pie....
Pros: Adam Beach, subject matter Cons: filming, writing, characters, every other actor
Introduction Have you ever really looked forward to a movie, only to be truly disappointed/let down/unsatisfied? That is exactly what happened to me with “Windtalkers.” I’m a big fan of World War II movies, but maybe that’s p ...
Pros: Occasional moments of action and occasional moments of acting Cons: The script is trite and predictable and the direction is largely indistinct
I get easily confused, you see. There's a commercial for the Marines that runs before every movie I see at a certain theatre and it features this scrawny guy climbing a rock formation in a Southwestern location that looks very much like Monument Valley....
Pros: Solid story. Solid action. Cons: Dodgy script and characters. Not on par with Woo's other movies.
John Woo is a man of few words, the way he expresses his feelings is by the use of violence in his movies. Like the saying goes “Actions speak louder than words” and you couldn’t be more right when it comes to John Woo. If you’ve not heard of the man...
Pros: Directed/Produced by John Woo and starring Nicholas Cage...what more could you ask for? Cons: Plenty! The violence in this movie never ends!
Windtalkers?What the heck kind of a name for a movie is that!?
Windtalkers is a war/action movie about the role of American indigenous people in the Second World War. There's a great deal of violence and some swearing in...
Pros: Things blow up real good Cons: So does the script
Better people than I have written about this John Woo flick and the bad stuff about it. Some of those reviews are terrific--see Mangiotto's in particular--so I'm not going to repeat what they have to say about this rather tepid war flick. Instead, ...
Pros: Some nicely shot, if not excessively gruesome, action sequences Cons: Losing focus of the codetalkers, and focusing on Cage's character
For a movie purportedly about the bond created in overcoming cultural and linguistic differences John Woo’s Windtalkers fails to translate any of its dialogue into anything unique, creative or entertaining. Expectedly, the film is beautifully and...
Pros: Good war action; interesting history Cons: Not much history given; Nicholas Cage is wasted
(Made a couple of minor fixes on 11/12/02.)
"Windtalkers" has a very interesting premise, based on the fact that the U.S. used Navajo indians speaking their native language on the battlefield in WWII for live, encrypted communications. These...
Pros: Horrific battle scenes, if that's what you like. Cons: A wasted opportunity to tell an important and true story.
"Windtalkers" is a film about the incredible contributions made by the Navajo during the Pacific campaigns in World War II. It is a movie about the code that was developed from the Navajo language that the Japanese could not crack. It is an uplifting...
Pros: Action sequences, realism, historical value Cons: Bungling marines, one-man heroics, two leading men competing
Windtalkers, the WW2 movie directed by John Woo, is a movie about the Navajo codetalkers who helped turn the tide in the island-hopping campaign against the Japanese occupation forces. While it pays tribute to the men who were really there, and is quite...
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