A Good but Predictable War Movie

Rating: 7/10 (20 August 2003)

In 1943, Joe Enders is a traumatized and hurt soldier, who lost all the men under his command when following the instruction to defend a certain spot. After a period in a military hospital, he is promoted to sergeant with the ungrateful assignment of protecting the radio-operator Navajo private marine Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach). In accordance with this movie, in the Second World War, the Americans developed a secret and unbreakable code based on the Navajo language. Sgt. Enders together with the promotion, received also an undercover mission of killing Pvt. Yahzee, if necessary, to avoid Japanese to get the cipher. This movie is very predictable. I had the sensation all the times of what would happen on the next scene and even the end of the story. I myself expected much more from Nicolas Cage (for me, one of the best actors in Hollywood), and John Woo (one of the greatest director of action movies). It is not a bad movie, but it is not in the same level of the recent Randall Wallace´s ` We Were Soldiers', for example. Anyway, it is recommended for viewers that like war and action movies, John Woo and Nicolas Cage. My vote is seven.