Nothing special

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2002)

STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs
Windtalkers is a disappointingly ordinary WW2 action film,with a plot styflingly similar to that of U-571 ,in it's themes of codes and their interception.Totally ordinary,perfunctory dialogue is it's other downfall.There is quite good emotional characterisation throughout,but this is a John Woo film,not Sam bloody Peckinpah.We want tonnes of explosive,powerful action like we saw in the likes of Woo's previous work,such as M-I:2 and Hard Target,which,sadly here,is in short supply.The film is also kind of overlong,droning on especially toward the end.Not completely unwatchable maybe,but definitely something of a let down.**