What's a Windtalker?

Rating: 2/10 (28 October 2002)

I was really looking forward to seeing "Windtalkers". My father-in-law was a Japanese language translator in WW2 and my wife went to a talk by a real Navajo Windtalker a few weeks ago. The story of the Windtalkers is interesting; unfortunately, John Woo decided not to tell it. The movie is 134 long minutes of tepid plot, war cliches, and bloody bodies flying through the air. Unless you are amused by gore and violence, forget about "Windtalkers".