working title - Windtalkers, A Waste of Your Time

Rating: 1/10 (29 January 2005)

This movie is the worst kind of movie - not good enough to be mediocre, not bad enough to enjoy ironically. If you want to see a well executed war movie, quickly overlook this one. The premise had potential, but it was very poorly executed by focusing on Cage's overdeveloped character. With no intriguing plot structure one naturally looks to the battle scenes for some saving grace, but yet again the viewer comes up short. The mind-numbingly long and rambling battle scenes retain the quality of a low budget cable movie, again not in that bad enough to enjoy ironically way. Stuntmen fling themselves to and fro after comically unrealistic explosions detonate in a setting that in no way resembles the Pacific front lines. The southern Californian shrubbery is a dead give away. Camera moves are staid and boring, which does nothing to enhance the disastrous fight sequences. I would rate this movie as "unwatchable" except that I continued to watch it out of some perverse human sensation one gets when slowing down to observe a traffic accident. Instead I will rate this movie UNFATHOMABLY AWFUL. Save your money and your time by not watching it.