Windtalkers is the narrative of two American soldiers (one played by Christian Slater, the other played by Nic Cage) who are assigned to protect two Navajo soldiers who work as windtalkers, transmitting messages past Japanese codebreakers using their code based on Navajo language.

Yes, there’s a lot of violence. Yes, it’s grim. The bodyguards, Cage and Slater, are instructed to extinguish the windtalkers rather than let them tumble into enemy hands.

This is a sizable war movie, not quite on the scale of Saving Private Ryan, but somewhere between something that tremendous and graceful and, say, Leisurely Enemy Lines. Cage and Slater do a marvelous job with their parts, which aren’t very fully fleshed out characters.

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Woo’s direction mature to be so over-the-top and artsy… the fight scenes traditional to be like cartoons, with terrible guy and noble guy blazing away at each other with two pistols… the most violent scenes were often preceded by or accompanying flocks of birds taking to flight, and bullet-riddled bodies always seem to pirouet in wearisome motion before they drop down tedious. Woo has left a lot of the traditional personal director’s style out of this one, actually. There ARE a lot of bullets, and a lot of the fighting scenes are very unrealistic (upright to mature Woo there), and there is one scene very reminiscent of mature John Woo, where a butterfly floats gracefully above a river then suddenly a bloody body falls into that river, destroying the fair image, juxtaposing a delicate natural image with a gory violent one, etc.

ANYWAY, mostly this is a shoot ‘em up war movie, and the ragged John Woo style is MOSTLY absent.

The yarn has that one feature going for it, the protection of the Navajo codetalkers, but otherwise it’s a very standard war movie, in terms of set. Mild, this movie comes off surprisingly well.

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If you’re a fan of the American John Woo movies, like Broken Arrow, or Mission Impossible II or Face/Off, or you liked some movies recently like Dismal Hawk Down or Slack Enemy Lines, you ought to engage a sight at Windtalkers. It’s not the best war movie of the last few years (I’d vote for Saving Private Ryan for that), or the best action movie, but it is inviting and memorable…

As a nephew of a Navajo Code Talker, I would like to deny my thoughts on WINDTALKERS.

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First of all, if the focus of a Navajo Code Talker movie is supposed to focus on the Navajo Code Talkers and their involvement in WWII, why is the movie centered around Nicolas Cage’s character while Adam Beach and Roger Willie play supporting roles?

Second, since a lot of folks are not informed about this section of WWII history, wouldn’t it have been a worthy better movie if they showed the origin of the Code Talkers before they faced the horrors of war in the Pacific Theatre?

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My uncle stood proud among the surviving Code Talkers as they were recently honored for their service in the Pacific. (note: at the beginning of the movie, he is the elder in the hat that talks to Yahzzie before he gets on the bus. He also served as technical consultant.) I’m determined after seeing the movie and having survived WWII, I doubt he enjoyed seeing the Code Talkers’ back-burner depiction in the film.

Nice “action” movie, though.
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