A Well-Done War Movie

Rating: 8/10 (20 December 2002)

Before I had seen this movie I had wanted a hollywood to do a film about the war battles between the United States and Japan following the attack of Pearl Harbor. I thought it would be cool to show the landings of the United States soldiers on Japenese conquered islands, and then Windtalkers was made and I was like "cool". I liked the battle scars Nicolas Cage had after the brutual engagement between the Japenese soldiers on the Solomon islands. I also liked the battle sequences which come close to "Saving Private Ryan" and was well done by John Woo (the producer or something of Mission Impossible). I also liked the seemingly randimozed deaths of soldiers which made the movie seem more realistic, hence "the captain, and Nicolas Cage die at the end" and people you didn't think would live, live. A good movie, but like Braveheart or Private Ryan you have to be prepared to let your hero go.