This Film Should Be Called `The A-Z Of War Cliches'

Rating: Null/10 (11 March 2003)

I am a big John Woo fan but unfortunately he's dropped to an all time low with Windtalkers. This is a far cry from when he used to make brilliant films like his best work Hard Boiled. The usual Woo themes are here, friendship and honour etc but for once its the action that lets Woo down, the action scenes seem very `staged' and it seems like you are watching an early rehearsal or a TVM. Cage sleepwalks his way throughout the entire film and this ranks as his worst performance since `Wings Of The Apache'. Nearly every war cliche is in place here, the bully who gradually comes to respect his victim, the photo's of the soldier's family back home and the `Hero' refusing to leave a fallen soldier to name just a few. The actors portraying the Navajo's are extremely annoying.
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and anyone with half a brain could guess that at the end either Cage or his Navajo friend were going to die. Like I said before i'm a huge Woo fan, I liked his US films that most people hated(MI2 and Broken Arrow) but this is evidence that maybe he should stay away from war films.
** out of *****