Windtalkers | | Cast : | Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach | | Director : | John Woo | | Studio : | MGM/UA Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | June 14, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | May 04, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 24, 2005 | | Summary | Finally---a movies about Native American soldiers | Content
 | This is perhaps the only movie so far that has any envolvement showing the parts that Native Americans have played in any of our wars. Yet the fact remains that Native American men have taken part in every one of our wars. Even the War Memorials in Washington, DC portray African Americans, Latin Americans as well as Americans of European descent. Why, I ask are Native Americans so neglected. For heaven's sake! These people are Orignal Americans. This is their country too, and many have died in all of our wars for it. It has come to my attention that Clint Eastwood is in process of making a war movie about Iwo Jima and that Adam Beach is in it. I can't wait to see something new in the way of a war movie showing envolvement with our wonderful native peoples |
| Rating | | | Date | July 18, 2005 | | Summary | One ironic and significant line | Content
| Not a bad movie but not a great one either. Nicholas Cage was totally over the top as Hollywood demands. Adam Beach was handsome of course, but with only three facial expressions - grimace, smile and grimace.
The most significant line in the whole movie, about the Japanese on Saipan, was set in the briefing room in the presence of the two Native American codetalkers, "It's their country and we're gonna take it from em", which was acknowledged by the cheering soldiers.
The sickening Irony was not lost on me. I wonder if anyone else noticed?
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| Rating | | | Date | June 18, 2005 | | Summary | Giving less than 5 stars to this movie is a crime! | Content
| maybe you don't like Nicolas Cage, maybe you don't like John Woo works! Let me start of myself! I have no sense to Nocolas cage, and hate John Woo and I think one of his masterpieses in ruining movies was the sequel to "Mission : Impossible" which many including me had high hopes for that!
But this movie is not a cheap, street fighting of action movie. It's a real epic and serious movie with excellent war secene of WWII in far east which I'd never seen any like them in any other movie! and it's really worth to buy cause it has many scenes that a War-Like person like me, can watch several times and enjoy! and, It's good to mention that, most of you people have never seen even a dead body, but I was in a real war and not a modern war, but a bloody old fashioned war just like WWII. my best friend bernt to die in front of me in a tank explosion. many of my comrades killed and turned into flesh pieces with mortars, grenades and enemy artillary. in some cases, we couldn't even collect their bodies or at least their metal plaques! I even have faught with enemy troops hand to hand and killed bunch of them with my knife! I spent 4 years of my life in the front and I can say that, all of the war scenes of this movie is real! |
| Rating | | | Date | April 15, 2005 | | Summary | We saved a lot of marines today - 5***** for Surround Sound | Content
| John Woo delivers plenty of action. This will give your surround system a work-out. There are enough reviews about the movie theme (Not as bad as expected, based on Amazon reviews), so I will note the transfer to DVD (One disc version) - Exceptional - I just watched this for a second time, but on a 50 inch widescreen and with a Yamaha 1400 amp. My rating went from 3 to 5, mainly because of the surround sound. The use of all channels is evident and the side/rear surround sound is fantastic, as is the .1 low end sound. So much so, it makes the viewer feel like they are in the middle of the skirmish. I enjoyed this movie more than Black Hawk Down. This is worth a second viewing with a nice sub woofer for house shaking bass.
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| Rating | | | Date | March 12, 2005 | | Summary | Say: "He was my Friend." | Content
| "Windtalkers" opens with glorious scenes of Monument Valley. This is the land of the Navaho. From glorious the scene changes to gory. Joe Enders' (Nicolas Cage) unit is cut to pieces on a Japanese island. Enders alone survives. He's wounded while all 15 men with him died... "on the ascent of nowhere."
After rehabilitation, Enders' next job in the Marines is guard a Navaho code talker named Ben Yahzee. Yet his job is not to protect the code talker but the code. This makes Enders adopt an attitude. "Don't get too close, " Enders says to his friend Anderson. "What the hell's the matter with you?" comes the reply.
By the end of the movie, Enders will change and so will the viewer. I hope I have not given too much away by the title of this review. Great scenery. Great drama. Great movie. |
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