should have been much better

Rating: 2/10 (16 February 2008)

Usually when someone says "The trouble with this is..." you'll hear a lie, because they want to hush you up. But it hard to talk about this movie without saying "The trouble with this is...". The movie should have been good. It's about the use of a little known Navajo language to used as radio codes in World War Two to prevent the enemy from cracking the code. Navajo soldiers are used to communicate with Allied forces, and each is assigned a mercenary soldier to protect them, or to kill them in case of capture. As stated before, this movie is really about Nicholas Cage and his heroics. The entire plot is very contrived, and in true Hollywood style, anyone you could care a thing about is killed very early, so a viewer has to trudge through this film. Unless you're doing a critique, you won't sit through it. A film like this should have been much better. The fault is horrendous writing, and writing is the most important aspect to many of us.