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Windtalkers (2002) Rank 4 Reviews
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Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Woo's fights have a distinct flair. His warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos. ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Orlando Weekly (Lisa Stokes)
Windtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop. ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at Orlando Weekly (Lisa Stokes)
KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) (Danny Minton)
Woo-Vision is in full force ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) (Danny Minton)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
For anyone in the mood for an unusual kind of war movie, Windtalkers is talking your language. ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Despite some of the sentimentality that is also Woo's stock-in-trade, I was moved and absorbed throughout. ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
It's the best new battle film since "Black Hawk Down," a movie it surpasses in sheer feeling and bravura style, if not in nightmarish panic and suspense. ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Wilmington)
Susan Granger
Dour Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage) is warweary, suffering serious eardrum damage and posttraumatic stress. Yet his devotion to duty propels him back into battling the Japanese in the Saipan invasion, where he's partnered with friendly yet fearful Ben Yahzee ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at Susan Granger
The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
When you see a film with Nicolas Cage and Director John Woo
you know you are in for an action packed movie. Let me tell you everyone will not be disappointment.
In World War 2, the Japanese were continually able to break
encrypted military ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
Moda Magazine (Brian Orndorf)
I shouldn't let talk of the spiritual or male bonding get in the way, as "Windtalkers" is most certainly a war film. Battle scenes are Woo's specialty, and this film features some wildly expressive set pieces of war. Forgoing the usual tightly ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at Moda Magazine (Brian Orndorf)
Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
This is certainly an exciting movie; director Woo has little trouble executing the reality of the horror and racheting up the tension. I wish there had been more time spent on the Navajo code and less on graphic violence, and Cage's characterization was ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Movies for Guys
However, credit where it is due, John Woo really did a great job with these action sequences. It doesn't do quite as well as ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at Movies for Guys
Tracksounds! (Christopher Coleman)
Reel.com
Windtalkers ' greatest victory, though, is off the battlefield. One gets a real sense of camaraderie; it seems believable that even though Enders has orders to kill Yahzee, these men would still fight to the last to save each other. Isn't that what ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at Reel.com
The Movie Chicks
During World War II, the Japanese were breaking every code the US military came up with. In 1942, a new code based on the Navajo language was developed and Navajo Indians were recruited into the Marines as code talkers. Joe Enders (Nicolas ...read the complete Windtalkers movie review at The Movie Chicks
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