Really touching movie.

Rating: 9/10 (22 October 2006)

The war scenes were pretty good. I was moved to tears by the end of the movie. Windtalkers truly honors the sacrifices and memory of the Navajo WWII code talkers, as well as the soldiers who protected them. It brought me back deeply into the sadness of war.
Nicholas Cage, as usual, did a great job of portraying his character. Despite a relatively similar acting style in most of his movies, I really enjoyed watching him and think he did pretty well.
Adam Beach and Roger Willie carried their ethnic characters rather well. Whitehorse was really cute during the scene where he performed better than all his younger counterparts in a class test, despite being seemingly less adaptive to the new military environment due to his age. He was a truly reassuring presence and wonderful mentor to Yahzee.
I also liked the way Yahzee's character was acted out - easy going, trusting and relatively untainted by war in the beginning, despite being right in the middle of it. Beach morphed nicely into the angry, reckless and desolate character that circumstances made him to be. His acting in this aspect was praise-worthy!
Watching Windtalkers was like a cleansing for the soul.