Better than Thin Red Line

Rating: 10/10 (14 June 2002)

I'm not usually a big John Woo fan, but I liked this one a lot. I hated Thin Red Line and Black Hawk Down because I feel watching U.S. soldiers getting gorily butchered for 2 hours isn't entertaining, and I also hate gory war films that try to work in a sweeping artistic message that doesn't work. Windtalkers is bloody but not overly so, and gives a message about friendship and war without being overly artsy. Sure, it has its cliche moments, you know the guy with the Girlfriend back home has no chance, Nick Cage kills 20 Japanese with a pistol, but overall it's a war movie that's well worth seeing and goes slightly deeper than explosions and machine gun fire