Windtalkers (2002)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 134m
Director: John Woo
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Christian Slater, Peter Stormare, Mark Ruffalo, Frances O'Connor
Synopsis:
During the Pacific campaign in the Second World War, a battle-scarred Marine is assigned the detail of minding a Navajo private, one of a special squad of such men, whose language is used to foil the Japanese codebreakers.
Review:
Supposedly based on fact, the film is ill-served by the director's flamboyant style and use of the highly emotive Cage. The value of the code is never quite demonstrated by a scenario in which it is merely used to call in timely bombardments of enemy positions, and the brilliantly staged sequences of close-quarter fighting, while exciting in themselves, make a mockery of the orders to keep the Indians 'out of harm's way', as indeed they do of Japanese marksmanship.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 134m
Director: John Woo
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Christian Slater, Peter Stormare, Mark Ruffalo, Frances O'Connor
Synopsis:
During the Pacific campaign in the Second World War, a battle-scarred Marine is assigned the detail of minding a Navajo private, one of a special squad of such men, whose language is used to foil the Japanese codebreakers.
Review:
Supposedly based on fact, the film is ill-served by the director's flamboyant style and use of the highly emotive Cage. The value of the code is never quite demonstrated by a scenario in which it is merely used to call in timely bombardments of enemy positions, and the brilliantly staged sequences of close-quarter fighting, while exciting in themselves, make a mockery of the orders to keep the Indians 'out of harm's way', as indeed they do of Japanese marksmanship.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 134m
Director: John Woo
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Christian Slater, Peter Stormare, Mark Ruffalo, Frances O'Connor
Synopsis:
During the Pacific campaign in the Second World War, a battle-scarred Marine is assigned the detail of minding a Navajo private, one of a special squad of such men, whose language is used to foil the Japanese codebreakers.
Review:
Supposedly based on fact, the film is ill-served by the director's flamboyant style and use of the highly emotive Cage. The value of the code is never quite demonstrated by a scenario in which it is merely used to call in timely bombardments of enemy positions, and the brilliantly staged sequences of close-quarter fighting, while exciting in themselves, make a mockery of the orders to keep the Indians 'out of harm's way', as indeed they do of Japanese marksmanship.