Script made by amateurs

Rating: 5/10 (4 February 2003)

John Woo made a film out of a bad script made by two unexperienced writers: John Rice and Joe Batter. Certainly they had no experience of war-movies. The Navajo language-code was never broken just as the last German Kriegsmarine-code of 1945 was never broken. Some coded dialect language, be it German or French or whatever could be difficult to break as well. The ending of the film is a real disappointment: the action scenes are repetitive and boring. This is not the best WOO. The movie lacks a point of view that could give a direction to the story. Making an apology of the bravery of an American-Indian tribe is not enough to make a movie interesting. There were brave soldiers on each side in the Second World War and the Japanese and the Germans were more fanatical soldiers than the Americans, but they lost the war.