Good story, but not realistic

Rating: 6/10 (23 December 2012)

Filmed in Kualoa Ranch on the windward side of Oahu, Windtalkers takes on the interesting story about US military's usage of Navaho tribes men to communicate in a near unbreakable code of their own native language.
The movie is produced well, but it has an artificial looks to it throughout the whole movie. This takes away from the experience. To begin with, all the actors look like they've just taken a shower, and their uniforms just delivered from the cleaners. Nicholas Cage doesn't look like a war worn soldier that he's supposed to be.
This is one of the early John Woo film that's made by Hollywood. It was made around the same time as another Asian movie director Ang Lee's "Hulk". They share similarity in that they both look too clean to be real.
The concept of the movie was pretty good, but the human drama, was weak. The movie could have been shorter by 30 minutes and more focused, it would have been a better movie.