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Windtalkers
Directed by
John Woo
R
2002
2h 14m
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6.1
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Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
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Cast of Windtalkers
Nicolas Cage
Sergeant Joe Enders
Adam Beach
Private Ben Yahzee
Peter Stormare
Sergeant Eric Hjelmstad
Noah Emmerich
Corporal Charles Rogers
Mark Ruffalo
Pappas
Brian Van Holt
Harrigan
Martin Henderson
Private Nellie
Roger Willie
Charlie Whitehorse
Frances O'Connor
Rita Swelton
Christian Slater
Sergeant Peter Henderson
Jason Isaacs
Major Mellitz
William Morts
Fortino
Cameron Thor
Mertens
Kevin Cooney
Ear Doctor
Holmes Osborne
Colonel Hollings
Keith Campbell
Kittring
Clayton J. Barber
Hasby
Scott Atkinson
Camp Tarawa Staff Sergeant
Jeremy Davidson
Marine
Brian Maynard
Corpsman
Windtalkers Ratings & Reviews
In These Times
Joshua Rothkopf
Woo reminds us that wars are fought by people; this is what makes his film great.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
War film relies too much on relentless violence.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
The energy and conviction of the action sequences don't quite compensate for Windtalkers' emotional cliches and historical heedlessness.
Variety
Robert Koehler
A powerful premise turned into a stubbornly flat, derivative war movie.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
While not perfection, Windtalkers is still one heck of a grand war movie.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
The history is fascinating; the action is dazzling. They just don't work in concert.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's the best new battle film since Black Hawk Down.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
A relentless, bombastic and ultimately empty World War II action flick.
eye WEEKLY
Adam Nayman
It's a film so terrifically inept, on so many levels of direction, performance and intent, that it demands and receives its audience's full, stunned attention.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's mired in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of Action Man clich atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of [Woo's] best work.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
I kept wishing I was watching a documentary about the wartime Navajos and what they accomplished instead of all this specious Hollywood hoo-ha.
CNN.com
Paul Tatara
No amount of burning, blasting, stabbing, and shooting can hide a weak script.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
The screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture. All the characters are stereotypes, and their interaction is numbingly predictable.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Windtalkers' remains almost obstinately flat.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Feels slightly off-key, out of focus.
Seattle Times
Melanie McFarland
This is one of the most intensely personal war films you will ever see.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Despite some feints in a soulful direction, the picture has none of the interior quality of a multifaceted war film like Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
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.
Newsday
John Anderson
You might need a decoder of your own to figure out what went awry with Windtalkers.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
Woo makes Windtalkers his own by combining the style and concerns of his earlier work with retro-sounding music and other war-movie conventions.
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