Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare
n the close quarters and brutal fighting of the World War II Pacific Theater, the U.S. Intelligence services desperately seek a fool-proof encryption code, immune to the code breakers of the Japanese....( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 15, 2002
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February 16, 2009Traumatized WWII sergeant Nicolas Cage is charged with the safe keeping of a Navajo code talker and ordered to ensure he never falls into enemy hands-no matter what the cost. From the very start, it's obvious that this is a John Woo film; the combination of slickly directed actio...( read more)
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October 6, 2008This has got to be the most retarded war film I have ever seen. John Woo desperately tries to make this a cinematical achievement he didn't notice that the more big unnecessary explosions he makes the more retarded and boring this film gets. From the awkward action scenes to the ...( read more)
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August 22, 2008An oustanding war movie. An engagging, riveting, deeply moving and excellent movie. A pulse-pounding and exhilerating action-packed drama. It's brilliant, absorbing, heart-pounding and extroadinary. A breathtaking and edge of your seat film loaded with explosive action sequences ...( read more)
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July 28, 2008The only thing that makes Windtalkers worth seeing is to remind movie producer why action filmmakers doing war films is a bad idea.
While John Woo knows for to shoot impressive action scenes, the problem that he is so focused on the action scenes that he kind of forgets about the...( read more) -
July 1, 2008Great movie, showing the contribution that First Nations people made to the war efforts, and freedom.
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November 3, 2009les relations amour-haine entre les marines détruits par les ravages de la guerre et les Indiens navajos inexpérimentés, on reconnaît les thèmes chers au réalisateur, leur traitement est trop lisse pour convaincre et l'hommage rendu à ces messagers du vent anecdotique. On se cont...( read more)
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November 2, 2009Cage is a soldier who is disillusioned with life until he becomes the guardian of a Navajo code-guy whom must be killed to protect the code, if necessary. They bond, each becomes stronger and there's lots and lots of 'splosions and people flying - due to said 'splosions. A perfec...( read more)
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October 19, 2009An interesting bio of our American Hero's.
Like so many of our American minorities, their stories go under reported.
Many Americans like the Navaho, Japanes Americans, and the Tuskgee Airmen need to have their stories portrade in the movies more often.
My Blessings to all of t...( read more)
Critic Reviews
June 14, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
June 14, 2002
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying, the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults even as you have to admit that somehow it hit you where you live. full review
June 14, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The Navajo code talkers have waited a long time to have their story told. Too bad it appears here merely as a gimmick in an action picture. full review
June 10, 2002
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The code talkers deserved better than a hollow tribute. full review
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June 18, 2007This movie...is awesome, way to hard to explain how awesome it is. I can watch it over and over without getting tired of it. Main reasons why I liked it soo much is because it looks very real, good detail and one of the main characters dies in the end. I don't believe it was all about one guy in the whole marines saving everyone, even though it looked like it in the movie. Yes Nicolas was in there mostly but there was quite a bit of other characters in there too. Yes on the cover of the dvd it has Nicolas's name on there only but, ha ha, he wasn't the only main character. Jeez what is it with people and whining on oh it's just about one character in the movie, well have you ever thought of maybe it tried to represent more then one person? It's kind of difficult to have each character have his own major part in it, it would be like a 10 to 20 hour movie.
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December 24, 2006Hey! Idiots! It's a Fictional movie! Jesus. Would you watch and hour and a half of ppl talking about other ppl talking in Navajo? No! Nick didnt come in and make it stupid, he came in and made it Worth Watching.
I give four thums up. exelent war movie, with some deep feelings, and the main character dies in the end, which in this case makes it sad, and even more interesting. I mean, how many of us get bord of the main charachter being the hero, surviving the whole movie w/o a scrach, and then get the girl? It just hapens too often. -
July 13, 2006Just to correct a poster and the review gave for his stars. It's NOT Vietnam it's actually WW2. This is the Pacific Theatre. Meaning Jap's. Have to keep in mind in WW2 were facing two different country's and such on two different fronts.
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June 12, 2006This movie seemed like a disgrace. It's supposed to be about the Codetalkers, yes, but the entire film seemed to evolve around Nicholas Cage's character more than the title characers. Also, it's just another typical Hollywood war movie. A squad gets into trouble, and here comes Nick Cage saving the day, blah blah blah. You get the idea. If you're expecting some serious history involvement, you're definitely not going to get it from this one. 5/10
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