Damn you...Joe Enders!

Rating: Null/10 (20 August 2004)

A film that wants to be epic, but that ends up being either laughable or tedious. If you're going to make a film about the Navajo soldiers and their contribution during WW2, then maybe it could be a good idea to actually include them in the story line.
As it is now, we get another over-the-top performance by Nic Cage as a constantly depressed soldier with a death wish (he's one hell of a soldier though - during each battle he alone manages to take out half of the enemy in a barrage of bullets and teeth grinding), who has to babysit an Navajo Indian. The latter's contribution to the film is to smile, say wise spiritual stuff, and occasionally turn in some coordinates over the radio.
Windtalkers feels endlessly overlong and blends massive battle scenes (i.e. guys flying through the air in front of explosions in slow motion) with sequences where absolutely nothing happens. If it had been shorter it could have been fun just to laugh at it, but you cannot even do that...