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Release Date: Jun 14, 2002; Rated: R; Video Release Date: Oct 15, 2002; Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, War; With: Adam Beach, Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater and Roger Willie; Distributor: MGM

All About

Windtalkers
B-
By Marc Bernardin
Marc Bernardin
Marc Bernardin

Finally, John Woo got to direct a movie in which hundreds, nay, thousands of men point guns at each other! There's also lots of Woo's trademark ham-fisted male bonding, as Nicolas Cage's grizzled Marine learns to love (the in-the-trenches variety, naturally) the Navajo linguist (a poignantly earnest Adam Beach) he's assigned to protect -- and if necessary, eliminate. That Native Americans played such a vital role in the Allied victory in WWII is as interesting a racio-historical nugget as the black experience in the Civil War. But this is no ''Glory''; Woo is too interested in the overorchestration of both emotion and explosion to give the drama the air it needs.


Posted Oct 18, 2002
 

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