Endless close combat, machine-gun fire, and explosions.

Rating: 4/10 (14 June 2002)

WINDTALKERS *+__ War/Action Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare
During WWII, a group of Navajo Indians enlist in the Marines to form a spoken code based on the Navajo language. Based on a true story. Unfortunately the details and story surrounding the Code Talkers is not nearly as well developed as one would have hoped. We see endless close combat, machine-gun fire, and explosions. Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach accomplish multiple John Wayne style acts of heroism. These were Marines on the very front lines, after all. Still, the filmmakers didn't need to include every explosion of every battle in this one film. If you've seen WE WERE SOLDIERS or the first reel of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, you have an idea of the intensity we are talking about here. This genre of film, which seems to be popular right now, shows the violence and gore of war in way more detail than I require.