Unrealistic, but still fun

Rating: 5/10 (5 August 2007)

It's okay for American soldiers to run over open fields and not get wiped out by artillery and heavy gunfire. It's possible that one man can take out an entire Japanese army with a Thompson submachine gun. It's definitely accurate for Japanese soldiers to only shoot at U.S. troops when they're only fifteen feet away. And it is realistic, when shot twenty times to keep screaming and bleed a quarter of bright orange or pink blood. Uhm? This sounds more like a M-rated video game rather than a war picture.
"Windtalkers", directed by one of my favorite action directors John Woo, delivers this versus something along the lines of "Enemy at the Gates" or "Private Ryan." He definitely holds to his stylish action of slow-motion images, CGI, and fireworks-like explosions, with a slight feeling of the mayhem of war, which leaves me, satisfied enough to sit through the two hour and fourteen minute "popcorn loving" film.
Despite this cartoonish feeling, the film has some decent performances, particularly by Adam Beach and Roger Willie as the two Navajo Indians and the hot-headed Christian Slater. Nicholas Cage is his typical self as the impenetrable hero (as exaggerated in the first paragraph). And the historical look of the Navajos and their unbreakable code was mildly interesting.
I was entertained through the film, but I got nothing out of it. It's just another unrealistic action flick with a World War II setting. 5/10