A good action film, but NOTHING more...

Rating: 5/10 (21 February 2003)

Windtalkers is a John Woo Film like every other film he made...great visual scenes but way too much use of slow motion scenes all over...just misses the hard story that came across my mind when viewing "Band of Brothers" or "Saving Private Ryan".
The story of this film is mainly focussed on the Navajo Marines who's native language is the main reason for america's victory in WW2 by using their language as some kind of attack code. However, the story focuses too much on action-related scenes and sorry to say that, but I do not believe any word Mr. Cage says in this film, everything just feels very unrealistic. The Japan soldiers are shown as idiots, which are running like dumb blind guys into the american's fire, on the opposite the american soldiers are shown (once again) as the heros of the world, not making any serious mistake :
Maybe the hard-core fans of John Woo will find his latest film a winner, but for me it's just a good action film, nothing more, nothing less.
No need to see that film once again.