Disappointed mature lady----

Rating: 7/10 (13 March 2004)

says: This film is nonstop explosions and gore. For the 2:14 running time, almost 2 hours is just mayhem and blood. The main characters, Nick Cage as Sgt. Joe Enders and Adam Beach as Ben Yahzee, his code radioman (Windtalker) are not even buddies until the last half hour because Enders mission is to protect Yahzee unless they are in danger of being captured and then he is to kill him. So Joe keeps his distance and tries not to know Ben. This makes us - the viewers -have no real feeling for either one. The rest of the cast, (Christian Slater, Mark Ruffalo) is given so little screen time that we care little when they are blown to bits.
The opening and closing sequences are gorgeous, filmed in the southwest among the mesa's and monumental beauty of the Navajo reservation. Where the actual locations are I don't know, but it is the most beautiful of our southwest landscapes and has never been photographed to such perfection. If Woo had given more screen time to his "Windtalkers" at their reservation before all the bloody mayhem of the war, it would have made all the difference. 7/10 for the 3 leads and the gorgeous cinematography. DVD