Very disappointing....a story yet to be filmed.

Rating: 3/10 (16 December 2002)

This film was a disappointment for a number of reasons. Wrong story line and wrong director for a story about the Windtalkers. It was not about the Navajos, but about the psychological effects of war on Nicolas Cage, who walks through the scenes giving us less than his usual fine performances. Adam Beach, who plays Sam Yahzee, on the other hand is very good. Woo is a great action director, but every scene of 25-30 Japanese soldiers being killed was just like the previous one. The practically "bloodless" Sands of Iwo Jima is a better film. The credits at the end of the film listed 104 stuntment; and surpisingly the official assistance of the U.S. Marine Corps. With a better story, Ridley Scott, Blackhawk Down director, could have presented a film worthy of the Navajo marines who played such an important role in the South Pacific during World War II.