One of the Worst War Films of all Time

Rating: 1/10 (3 March 2008)

Having read some of the historical detail around the Navajo talkers I thought that maybe this might have been a good film. But then I didn't reckon with the double whammy of John Woo and Nick Cage.
Thankfully I came in in the middle, on TV, and missed the first half. I arrived in the middle of the most ridiculous battle scenes ever filmed. Men standing up in the open waiting to get shot. Short range Tommy Guns given the range of rifles and hitting people at long range. Long range Browning Automatic Rifles being saved for close range. Grenades that seemed to be filled with napalm throwing huge petrol explosions 30 feet into the air. This was a WW2 Kung Fu film. Everyone was running around at double speed just like in those Hong Kong comedies. But this was supposed to bea serious film ? A career nadir for Cage. He has made a lot of rubbish but here he seemed to be stoned. A one man army without any emotion. Even John Wayne wasn't his bad in the 1960's. This was made in 2002. So why the unreconstructed right wing garbage of the 1960's war film?