An insult

Rating: 6/10 (30 June 2002)

Okay, let me say something. I love war movies!! Cheezy ones (Siege at Firebase Glory), old ones (A Walk in the Sun), and the 'blockbusters' that never were (Pearl Harbor). But Windtalkers was an insult to Americans, Navajo, Marines, and John Woo. There is no reason to tell this story from the white guys perspective. It is kind of like Glory in that way.

The whole story line of shooting the Navajo is made up. The producers knew this but desided it would be more dramatic this way. It would be like the Japanese bombing Peral AFTER we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Someone said movies like this dont make it because the public has no sence of history. That is kind of true. If the producers had a sence of history they would have made a better movie. "Based on True Events" the posters tell us, let's see, the war the marines and the Navajo was all true, however, the whole point of the story line wasn't, nice trade off.
*Spoilers*
The music was terrible, felt like out of horror movie. Of course the racist guy is saved by a Navajo, there is a scene where they sit around talking about what they are doing after the war. There is a scene where someone says "Mail this for me if I dont come back" How many times have we seen this? And they are "Codetalkers" not "Windtalkers" but I guess if you are going to make up the story for the most part you might as well call them something more catchy and maybe 'ethnic'. I'm just glad I downloaded this and didn't pay for it, and I recomend if you have the dire need to see it do the same.