You'll Woo the day...

Rating: 1/10 (15 July 2002)

I was looking forward to seeing Windtalkers, because the concept sounded very interesting, and I thought it was a setup for a very morally ambiguous plot resolution. However, I had to walk out after about 45 minutes, because the direction was so godawful. The combination of wholly inappropriate uses of slow motion and swelling upbeat music while the bodies fly, made all the violence in the movie seem more like 'A-team', and less like 'Saving Private Ryan'. If you want a war movie, this is not it. If you want a Hong Kong action flick with the characters dressed as Japanese or US soldiers, this may be the movie for you. However, I think you're going to want your money, and two hours of your life back at the end of it. Go watch Jackie Chan, or Das Boot or something...
I've been able to sit through John Woo movies before, but this one was over the top bad.