WINDTALKERS can not match up with the others.

Rating: 5/10 (5 October 2002)

Woo is one of the biggest trend setters in the action genre, but after seeing WINDTALKERS I can only say he's far from the quality Mallick or Spielberg can deliver. WINDTALKERS wasn't that good. It wasn't about war. WINDTALKERS is a fairy tale wrapped up in a WW 2 jacket. It includes too much mellowness and predictable situations that only work in Woo's THE KILLER and HARD-BOILED. Also the Japanese enemy soldiers fall like flies (1 bullet for 7 enemies?) just as in the early Woo films. When American soldiers are hit it ... goes in slow-motion. Seems to me not much thought went into the characters and even some scenes seem to be cut and pasted together in a quick way. John Woo is one of those directors that shouldn't have gotten into Hollywood. I expected more from this and if you know what war movies came out before WINDTALKERS you will be slightly disappointed too.
5/10