Windtalkers
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 25 Ratings
- Starring: Adam Beach, Nicolas Cage
- Summary: In 1942, several hundred Navajo Americans were recruited as Marines and trained to use their language as code. In John Woo's Windtalkers, Marine Joe Enders (Cage) is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee (Beach) -- a Navajo Code Talker, the Marines' new secret weapon. (MGM)
- Director: John Woo
- Genre(s): Action, History, Romance, War
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Positive: 14 out of 35
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Mixed: 19 out of 35
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Negative: 2 out of 35
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90Despite some of the sentimentality that is also Woo's stock-in-trade, I was moved and absorbed throughout.
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80Windtalkers is the best of Woo's American movies, and the one with the sturdiest and most direct links to his earlier pictures.
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60This is the kind of film where you think you can predict everything that’s going to happen upon the first shot and you spend the rest of the film praying that you’re wrong. But it’s fun getting there.
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25This is a great subject for a movie, but Hollywood has squandered the opportunity, using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreographed mayhem that director John Woo has built his career on.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 17
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Mixed: 6 out of 17
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Negative: 5 out of 17
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PeterS.4Strange that a film with so much bloody carnage could be so unexciting.
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