War is hell and so is watching this movie...

Rating: 3/10 (3 September 2006)

Nicolas Cage stars as a soldier who has to protect a Native American code breaker in World War II along the way there are many battles and people fight it out and this reunites Woo with Christan Slater and Nicolas Cage. If anything else Windtalkers explains exactly how far Slater's career had fallen, Slater has a pretty big part and despite being a major character is billed behind Adam Beach and like a couple others. Considering that he hasn't done much since, it goes to show that Slater hadn't fallen on some career speed-bumps. Although this is slightly before Slater made a comeback in the movie we all remember him for Uwe Boll's Alone In The Dark (Not!) Windtalkers itself is a sub-par effort that is closer to Platoon Leader than Platoon and basically we sit and watch as the various soldiers are marked for death and watch as Woo tries extremely hard to make this more interesting than it is. Nicolas Cage also tries hard but once again the movie is so clichéd and tries so hard to be uplifting we never buy into the concepts the actors try to sell with what can only be interpreted as performances. Still there is one good decapitation that always kicks some like into the proceedings. Although I didn't know the Japanese carried samurai swords into the World War II battlefield.
*1/2 out of 4-(Poor)