No Successful Story and Little Acting

Rating: 4/10 (8 May 2005)

I'm a big fan of war films and was hoping this would be another Saving Private Ryan (1998) but I was big time wrong. The story, I found was bland and the action getting to the point of stupidity.
Sergeant Joe Enders (Nicholas Cage) is the only survivor of an engagement with Japanese forces in the jungle. Now he is a hospital back on a tropical island in the Pacific. Joe goes back into service a few weeks later and is assigned two Navajo code talkers Private Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) and Private Charlie Whitehorse (Roger Willie) to whom he must protect.
Suddenly the battalion find's themselves in engagement after engagement which go on way to long. It seemed to me that during the battle Nicholas Cage was the only one doing any shooting and killing and is always leaping in front of an enemy machine gun nest but never being hit. The overall goal of the movie was to show the story of the 'Windtalkers' on the field of battle but that is quickly sucked up with Cage's character.
Cage's character is made out to be this elite, troubled solider who is so much better at fighting than everyone else. In fact Cage's character could give Rambo a good fight if pitted against one another. The story is slow, it's boring, and it tries to work in a point of overcoming racism when there is none really present. The battles are mediocre at best and the plot is nonexistent.
Windtalkers. Starring: Nicholas Cage, Adam Beach, Roger Willie, Christian Slater, and Peter Stormare.
2 out of 5 Stars