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BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

nafps There are already many reviews panning this film for simply being poorly made, badly acted, directed, and written, unbelievable, and gory and exploitative. A smaller number of reviews rightly consider it an insult to the memory of WWII veterans and more specifically Native vets and Navajo Code Talkers.I'd like to focus my review on its many historical inaccuracies. The biggest one is that its central premise is wrong and appallingly offensive, the false claim that Marines assigned to be bodyguards to Code Talkers were ordered to kill them rather than let them be taken prisoners. Not only is it utterly wrong, it's near impossible to imagine any Marine killing another Marine, or any Marine officer giving such an order. The claim ignores that some Code Talkers were, in fact, captured. The scriptwriter also seems to have not known that the famed code was not just two Navajos talking to each other. The original 28 Navajo Code Talkers composed their own complex code. Navajos who were not Code Talkers could not understand nor reveal that code.This code was never written down until after the war, committed solely to memory, a great intellectual feat. Imagine the main character in The Imitation Game never writing down a code he'd written, for example. The Navajo code was also never broken, nor were any transmissions ever incorrect. This was a huge strategic advantage, and the entire USMC in the Pacific Theater came to depend on the code.None of that is mentioned in the film. It would have been far more accurate and interesting than this film focused almost solely on Cage's fictional character. The Navajo Nation did make their own film, a documentary, True Whispers. See it instead.There are also many good books discussing the Code Talkers: Chester Nez's Code Talker (autobiography); Doris Paul's and Nathan Aseng's Navajo Code Talkers (two separate books); Jere Franco's Across the Pond; and my own book Medicine Bags and Dog Tags. Thanks for reading this far, Dr. Alton Carroll US, American Indian, and Latin American History Northern Virginia Community College

adonis98-743-186503 Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher. Windtalkers is easily John Woo's worst american film. I mean except Nicolas Cage who at least tries a little bit and the rest of the cast Adam Beach was such a horrible character. He was either afraid or crying for half of the movie and even the well made footage of battles couldn't save the movie. If you're also looking for historical accurate events or whatever well? you're definitely not getting your money's worth with this one guys like trust me you really won't it's that bad. (4/10)

Mal 1978 An incredibly realistic portrayal of what would happen if real soldiers fought like Call of Duty gamers! Don't bother to take cover or to form a firing line, just run & jump all over the battlefield like mad, shooting everything you see on the fly!! This movie even has humiliation kills, with a soldier knifing multiple armed enemies dead. And if you get killed, don't worry...er...oops, my bad. Unfortunately, in real combat there are no respawns, although the soldiers in this movie don't seem to realize that.What a movie!! In fact, Activision could learn some things from this movie on how to make their C.O.D. games more exciting!!Still, I give it 5 stars cause the action scenes in this movie are truly spectacular!

Nico Viergever I did not expect too much of this movie, especially after looking at the IMDb ranking. I watched the film and I read the reviews and I noticed the reviews are packed with senseless prejudice.Windtalkers is, in my opinion, an excellent film. It describes the importance of Navajo code talkers to the US army during World War II. At the same time it describes the view of the American army to these same Navajo soldiers who were just as other minorities seen as inferior.The two main aspects why I thoroughly enjoyed this movie: the excellent combination of John Woo's fantastic direction and the editing and cinematography. Both in big, wide shots and in close by scenes the movie is brilliantly made with great eye for detail with fantastic shots. Of course a number of scenes are not very realistic. Of course John Woo goes over the top completely with explosions, according to some. But search for the described battle: looks like they went over the top there as well.Second reason: as the main character, a marine traumatized by previous experiences and always justifying his actions because he followed his orders and at the same time doubting that principle, Cage showed again that he is a great actor. He was impressive! Never mind the reviews of people who are negative about the film because they don't like Woo and/or Cage. Never mind the people who don't like the film because they only wanted to see Navajo heroics. This is a highly underrated film.