Not Even!

Rating: 4/10 (16 June 2002)

Modern World War II movies that cut the mustard? Try Saving Private Ryan, Das Boot, When Trumpets Fade, and even The Thin Red Line (if you like the premise of Walt Whitman goes to war). Try Band of Brothers (if it ever comes out on DVD/VHS); but don't try Windtalkers! Try Stalingrad (and if you like a love story, even try Enemy At The Gates); but don't try Windtalkers! Try Cross of Iron! Don't try Windtalkers! Hell, even try The Big Red One (at least that one is funny, and you get to see Luke Skywalker carry a M1 Garande instead of a lightsaber). I would rather see all of the old episodes of the 50s T.V. show, `Combat,' rather than the senseless fodder of Windtalkers. Poor Nick Cage makes Audey Murphy look like Corporal Upham, from Saving Private Ryan. The Bronze Star, the Silver Star? Forget it, Nick Cages' character should have won the Congressional Medal of Honortwice over!!! Maybe I was wrong, but I was expecting a realistic portrayal of the war in the Pacific, but what I got was Crouching Stupidity, Hidden Plot-lines. The acting, apart from the action scenes, was not all that bad. I guess the wait continues for a realistic WW II movie of the Marines in the Pacific Theater. Hey, how come we haven't had a realistic World War I movie in the last 20 years?