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Directed By
John Woo
Written By:
John Rice, Joe Batteer
Cast:
Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Christian Slater, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Stormare, Brian Van Holt, Frances O'Connor, Jason Isaacs, Martin Henderson, Roger Willie
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Windtalkers (2002)
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Movie Review by Chris
January 1st, 2008
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Not A Classic, But Good
John Woo has been none for all of his martial arts films in Japan and America, and it shows in Windtalkers. In most of Johns movies, he just about shoots, blows up and destroys everything he can within 2 and a half hours. While the battle scenes were good, the movie lacks on the scale of being a character based film. In the beginning, we get granted to this character of Joe Enders, which could have become a big mystery in the movie. But no, the film just ends up becoming loud and expensive.
Nicholas Cage has to be one of my favorite actors of all time, even though Ghost Rider really sucked as a movie, his roles in Lord of War were really captivating story wise. Even though we never learn much about the character of Joe Enders, Nicholas really does a good job with the character. Adam Beach plays as Ben Yahzee, one of the navajo translaters. Throughout the movie we seem to learn a little bit more about him along the way, but never do we get any real character depth. Adam does a pretty good job with the role, mainly concerning me because since this film, I havent heard anything about him.
The film is definately all John Woo, just watch the fight scenes. The battles are huge in terms of the action and explosions, but after a while, it gets repetitive. After the first hour, I began to get tired of watching all those bullets hitting the ground, never once connecting with the man theyre shooting at. There were some moments which really got me engaged into the film, but besides that it waas always just on the glimpse of my eye.
Bottom Line: Its Good
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