Average, low-pointish war-fare from Woo and Cage

Rating: 5/10 (16 June 2002)

(Possible Spoilers Ahead)
Nicolas Cage is a marine in WW2 assigned to protect the code of the Navajo, and the soldier with it, at all costs. Some interest pops up in earloy Navajo scenes and some decent photography spread out doesn't save this damn too typical war picture, which gives Cage and his fellow cast members (American and Native American alike) the most standard of war movie characterizations- supportive woman, nurse of course, back home writing letters (Frances O'Conner), friendly buddy (Christian Slater), racist (Noah Emmerich), et all. Even the war scenes contain the obligatory music at inapropriate moments, give my ring to my wife, different race saves the racist, all drenched in blood. At the end, Woo needs to go back to the movies that brought him to America in the first place and to leave his "anti-war message", as he calls it, behind. Grade: C (because it does try in the war action).