Who green-lighted this mess?

Rating: 3/10 (14 July 2004)

I am giving up on John Woo as an action director, or as a director of anything at all. "Windtalkers" goes completely off the tracks within 15 minutes of its opening scene, and all the raving the otherwise great Nicolas Cage spews will never bring the film back again. We alternate between preposterous battle scenes and the most cliched "dramatic" dialogue that I've heard since "The Green Berets." You could cruise along on all the blood and guts for a while, but at two hours few will have the patience and dullness of mind necessary. I don't know if this film bombed-I just hope it did.