More Thin Red Lines.

Rating: Null/10 (22 October 2002)

This is another 'war is really all hell' films, of the type pioneered by Speilberg's 'Pvt. Ryan', filled with plenty of gore and heroics and, although very entertaining, not unique.
The Navajo code-talkers in this story, seem to be prop for the 'war-is-hell' theme, and does not really hit the point of the heroic efforts of the Navajo Americans, whose ancestors battled with the armies and politics of 19th century America and who managed to keep their own heritage, and at the same time become a inseparable part of the American mosaic.
Adam Beach, Roger Willie, Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater do their duty as top-notch performers, but are far short of exceptional.
If anything good is to be said for this run of the mill war movie it is for the special effects, (bloody) and an accurate depiction of how brutal war in the Pacific Theater had been.