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Not great but worth a watch for Adam Beach, Roger Willie, some Nic Cage PTSD, and John Woo’s big, bloody, brutal and beautiful battle scenes filled with squibs and slo-mo. You also get to see Christian Slater’s decapitated head via shin guntō, which is a real HOLY SHIT moment. (Very curious about the 153min Director’s Cut after this most recent Theatrical Version rewatch, will need to check it out) 🇺🇸👊🇯🇵👦🏻🧑🏻🚍🪖💥👂🎧📝📻🎒🌬🗣🪖🩸🔫🤸♂️💥🤸🏻
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This is considered a Very Bad film, it’s not. John Woo’s 100 million dollar flop feels exactly like a Hong Kong action film, which means we have soulful dissolves of Nicolas Cage and the tone of the movie is speaking to a sort of universal humanity that everyone can feel. Many are turned off or flustered by this judging by the reviews on here but I don’t think I’ve ever seen an American war film (especially one this expensive) that I came away from feeling was as spiritually healthy as this one. Everyone gets a chance and could be good and nobody is really depicted as evil. Which is nice, I think. Compare Christian Slater complimenting his Navajo companions playing…
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The war action here is unparalleled, absolutely brutal and dynamic, constantly in motion, light years beyond even Spielberg’s iconic stuff, because almost no other filmmaker understands the intrinsic beauty of violence as well as John Woo. He routinely deploys abrupt bursts of kinetic energy, like a stuntman twirling into the air after an explosion or a sudden rip of machine gun fire shredding a body, creating a physical sensation of anxiety and release that perfectly compliments his unvarnished, classically melodramatic pent up male emotion. In Woo’s deeply Catholic work, frailty, both of the body and the spirit, links us as human beings. This movie is gorgeous and exhausting and probably his most unheralded film. [153min Director’s cut]
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pathetic, histrionic warkitsch. a machinery of ruckus and turmoil veneers the fiasco this film is. deeply racist – not only are the asian enemies faceless, even the native sidekick is depicted as enigmatic, wild and restive animal. John Woos rock bottom.
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[watched the 153min director’s cut] It opens as a brief revisionist western (or maybe even just a revision of Woo’s own goofy free-solo cold open for Mission: Impossible II), of great stone mesas colored in red clay the color of permanent sunrise that oversee the original occupants of the land who are, almost perversely, willingly volunteering to fight for a nation that still doesn’t recognize them. Woo will confront this head-on as the film follows Navajo deployed to the frontlines of the Pacific theater, their native language, already repressed by centuries of colonial violence, now appropriated by the same US military that has harassed them since the nation’s founding to use against foreign enemies. The severity of that foundation grounds…
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Action! – What Does The Dove Say? Woo Woo Woo Woo! In the same way that “Carlito’s Way” plays like Brian De Palma’s reflection and meditation on the excesses of a life of crime during the 80s as portrayed in “Scarface”. In a way, this feels like a spiritual sequel to “Heroes Shed No Tears,” with its action-explosive scenes which see the director return to his roots. It also serves as a reflection on the native tribes in the United States and the discrimination they suffer to this day, and how in a certain sense these two groups, who didn’t get along, had to put aside their differences in order to fight a common enemy. This film was also co-produced…
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john woo goes to the pacific islands and blows up EVERYTHING. yes, there’s a sweet and well-executed melodramatic plot about forgiveness and empathy here, but what’s really crazy good are the michael bay-amounts of explosions and epic scale that woo brings to the table, guys are running around stabbing people in the chest and torching dudes with flamethrowers, there’s a ludicrous amount of fire and grime and dirt and blood being flung into the air. heroic bloodshed gets taken to a gargantuan extent, with the dark “i always keep one bullet in the chamber” mantra from woo’s the killer being taken as a mandatory military compulsion in order to secure the honor of your brotherhood of soldiers, it’s simultaneously very sentimental and devastatingly grim. this is easily his best american film.
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a 153 minute (in its director’s cut) John Woo helmed exploitation movie with a 100+ million dollar budget and a major studio attached, likely expecting prestige and getting anything but — takes everything Woo perfected in both his HK and Hollywood tenure, turning in a war movie that is more Heroic Bloodshed than WWII jingoism, all attempts at hamfisted melodrama rendered pulp by sustained, gruesome and gorgeously orchestrated sequences of violence that end up feeling like The Dirty Dozen by way of Mission: Impossible II; if this isn’t Woo’s best American film it is, at the very least, unquestionably his most underrated
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Rotten Tomatoes: 51% Metacritic Metascore: 48 IMDB: 6.6 73/100 Joe Enders: “You must be a wonderful father, Ben.” Action legend John Woo brings his trademark bullet ballet to the Pacific theater. And you know what? When Windtalkers tries to be an action movie, it succeeds. The concept alone is fantastic – you have a Marine charged with protecting a Navajo Code Talker who is secretly ordered to kill him if the enemy captures the precious code. That’s badass. The movie just doesn’t always know how to handle itself. Release Date: June 14th, 2002 Distributor: MGM Production Companies Production Companies: Lion Rock Productions, Windtalkers Production Nic Cage portrays Sgt. Joe Enders as though he’s literally stitched together with tape and sheer…
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John Woo gets punished for making melodrama when faux Oscar bait somberness is expected, but this remains a rather affecting film. Plenty of stock material in the soldiers exchange, but the emotional clarity never falters and he coordinates mayhem like the best of them.
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Without a doubt Woo’s best American film, and one of the better war movies of the century so far. Woo should be better recognized as a director of war movies, he’s made more of them than ‘heroic bloodshed’ films at least. The stuntwork is some of the best I’ve ever seen in the genre (funny how everyone takes their chance to leap and roll because they’re working for Woo), gruesome, but so fast. Between his performance here and in Flags of Our Fathers, it’s evident that the only reason Adam Beach never became a star is the persistent racism of Hollywood casting policies. I can only assume the film failed because it was simply too dark: a war film that…
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Haven’t seen this since VHS days but I happened to see it in a charity shop and wondered how it would hold up — turns out the answer is ‘not bad’. If it doesn’t fulfil the potential of ‘John Woo does a WWII epic’, well it was never really going to under the circumstances and it’s still a decent action film. Aside from a cliché script and obvious performances, the main issue is the tone — it oscillates between ‘Saturday…
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Pour l’avoir vu plusieurs fois étant jeune vraiment sympa ! On est pris dedans et y’a l’action nécessaire + le développement de la relation entre les deux persos principaux est cool
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Director’s cut. A little too “white savior-y” for my taste (lol why is Christian Slater on the poster over Adam Beach?), but I respect Windtalkers pure commitment to melodrama and its more spiritual moments (Slater and Beach playing their music together). And get this: John Woo, he’s really good at directing action sequences! Who would have guessed?? Cage appreciation: spends the first forty minutes of the film solem, detached, before returning to the battlefield where all his inner rage is…
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[WW2 actioner] The Navajo code breaker stuff is a cool bit of WW2 history, and one wishes it got a film treatment with a bit more gravitas than this. This writer wonders if slow-mo doves and Chow Yun Fat enthusiast director John Woo is the best fit for this material? However, all of the action stuff is epic and super awesome. So much stuff explodes! No weapons expert over here, but does a WW2 grenade explode with quite so much…
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“You saved a lot of marines today.” “Yeah, we did Ben.” would give this +10 points for the navajo traditions + new mexico mention 🫡
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Was this filmed on the same island as Lost?
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Windtalker is a movie I last watched about 20 years ago, and now I have started watching these John Woo films again, little by little. I can say that this is ultimately his most serious film in Hollywood. I would have liked to see more of them. In my opinion, Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach do really great lead roles. Especially, it is great to see when Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage) tries to avoid emotional contact with Ben Yahzee (Adam…
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It’s dumb, it’s cheesy, it’s nonsense, but I’d still watch it over Nolan’s Dunkirk. I’d rather have Nic Cage doing crazy face than cringing my way through Harry Styles struggling to act for two hours. It teaches you a little about WW2 too (American Navy did use Navajo language as code… that’s about it though). I’m being generous, historical accuracy is not what this film was going for. John Woo does know how to direct great action set pieces though, and that is the one big plus for this film.
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A secret language only best friends understand.
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Watched this many years ago, against my will, while coming down off of way too much MDMA. Maybe the worst day of my life. Definitely the worst movie viewing experience of my life.
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Lots of great action and Nicolas cage 🔥
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Cage is tries his best. This movie is just a little bit to big and a little bit to hollywood.
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it was an okay film i only liked it when they would speak Navajo
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(4 étoiles)
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Nic Cage running on the beach montage Summer Roadtrip: 19/50: Utah
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“say he was my friend” BRO💔 oh em gee like what he died after allat but lowk life changing holy
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Too much slow mo.
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Nicholas Cage single handedly defeated the Japanese and won WW2. So many explosions to the point where it’s over kill. This movie is so ridiculous.
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Feels crazy to say but this racist insane movie is like the only time John Woo’s heroic bloodshed stuff worked during his time making movies in America. The carnage on display is just cartoonish but seems almost custom made for Woo’s sensibilities, it’s quite surprising it’s his first and only try at World War 2. A ton of emotion and empathy between all the main cast, but then it also treats the japanese forces like they’re straight out of an evil propaganda poster. Bizarre, but good, especially if you just roll with the silly Cage performance. Also this is my 1000th review lol, time flies.
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Bland generic war film that sidelines the Navajo service men it’s meant to highlight. Even the action sequences (Woo’s speciality) are patchy and often confused. Nicholas Cage does a lot of brooding. Oh and Cage “origin story” scene could be the one the pilot in “Airplane” has it’s so comically overwrought .
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Wished it talked more about the code talkers and less about whatever Nicolas cage had going on 🤷♀️
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Call me a filthy fucking liberal, I guess, but I kinda lean in that whole direction of the importance of representation in storytelling. I really scratch my head at why the fuck a Hong Kong national is making a movie about Navajo code-talkers. I mean, for that era, a studio wouldn’t have let a Navajo filmmaker do the movie, but you could’ve at least had a goddamn consultant. I mean, Christ. The interesting thing about this film is that it’s…
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For my final day of living in Hawaii, I decided to visit Kualoa Ranch (Hollywood’s “Hawaii Backlot”) and take their movie tour. Yall know damn well I was HYPED when I saw the Windtalkers pictures and terrain model for the battle. The film is just alright and corny, but the battle scenes were pretty intense and filled with John woo explosions so that’s what saves it for me. They blew that fucking valley to smithereens!
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PIMBA. Buena película bélica. Me gusta la relación de los dos principales. Se le ha hecho larga a mí padre a veces. Yo creo q es xq ya la había visto y quería acción y sangre. Yo estoy en desacuerdo pero no pasa nada.
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Underrated war movie
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Good film. The war scenes are very good.
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Yá’át’ééh! Letzte joare nit miehe zoë va modern warfare movies (al is WWII och al nit miehe modern). Dizze toch nog ens gekaege, schnap ming 4 schteere nog. Et es eng gow film die liet siehe taege welke pries Diné (Navajo) igezat woëte.
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Primero dije ok pelicula de guerra chidilla sin mas, pero al ver todo lo que hubo detras de camaras en cuanto a la produccion me dejo mas impresionada en un aspecto tecnico y en cuanto al homenaje que le hacen a los nativos americanos que me hizo apreciar mejor la pelicula
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it’s a shame he wasn’t more headstrong
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Nicolas Cage is the man. And Christian Slater is in here which I wasn’t expecting. Pretty good war film I don’t think that there isn’t a war movie that I have seen I don’t like.
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Otra vez viendola con la familia, un clasico ver una peli de nicolas cage
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the main guy is stupid im glad he died
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cool to have a story talking about a story that is not a mainstream WWII story (Navajo Code Talkers) but this film still focuses on white dudes 80% of the time. Story is pretty good as are some of the action sequences but when your film is called Windtalkers I want to see and learn more about them and not just watch another WWII film
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good war film an older one from a while back
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IIamwilford 7 月 28, 2026
Unironic Starship Troopers.
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Nic Cage VS The Invasion of Saipan There’s some cool ideas in this and I didn’t know about the Navajo code talkers. Nic isn’t doing great in this one as he deals with his friends dying while he gets heralded as a good marine. The friendship between Enders and Yahzee was fun to watch, but the film definitely has some white saviour moments. The battle scenes were all really cool but it did start to feel like COD as the marines mow down a crazy number of Japanese soldiers.
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Vidim ljudi ovaj film nesto ne vole ljudi ali je meni izvrstan, od priče do kadrova.
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I love Nick Cage but his character was unbareable, very good portrayal of ww2 and the code talkers but as someone who has spent a lot of time researching and learning about the Navajo code talkers, I think it was not as focused around them as I would’ve liked, but I think it was very interesting to show the relationship between the code talkers and the other marines. Adam Beach, Mark Ruffalo, and Nick Cage in a movie together 🙏🥹
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very hard for me to take any nick cage movie seriously he just has such funny faces
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De las pelis que se solucionan con un besito entre los protas. Nicolas Cage hace de Nicolas Cage y sale bien
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war movie night with dad but i watched it again for a history project. its really amazing to bring to light how important the navajo code was in the war. thats it kinda a basic movie however fun to watch.
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Pretty cool movie, don’t know why Nicolas cage was the main character of a movie about native Americans though
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Woo’s mastery of action spectacle, his love of melodrama, and his recurring theme of brotherhood are right at home here in the Pacific theater of WWII, even if it’s a little too glamorized for a post-Saving Private Ryan audience. But like Glory before it, the film stumbles by simultaneously telling the story of unsung heroes from marginalized racial groups while centering so many white characters. Luckily, Cage and Beach make for a strong pair of leads and the supporting cast all do great work, but this is less a story about the Code Talkers and mostly just another good war film hitting the familiar beats.
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War cheese. But it’s John Woo so still entertaining.
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Mfs ven películas como estas y aún así quieren ir a la guerra lmao Nicolas Cage con mucha aura como siempre. Muchos efectos prácticos, good shit El DVD tenía Discrot entonces a la mitad de la película hubo que conformarse con Cuevana3 porque los subtítulos de Stremio no empataban lmao
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This was fun but good lord man they were really trying to make the next Private Ryan movie in this era
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Jjuanzipp 7 月 17, 2026
exactamente lo que uno esperaría de John Woo haciendo una película bélica en Hollywood: sangre rojo bermellón, acción frenética y dinámica, ráfagas de disparos excesivas una atrás de otra, personajes estereotípicos casi caricaturescos, explosiones grandiosas por todas partes, extras muriendo de forma ridícula, dobles de riesgo volando por los aires o cayendo desde las alturas, la importancia de la fraternidad junto a la lealtad y el peso de la culpa del pasado, todo llevado a una escala aún mayor para…
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classic white savior redemption arc. adam beach was great like he is in most everything. war movies with tons of all combat scenes are boring to me otherwise (strong) maybe i’d rate it higher
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I have so many thoughts for such a multifaceted (?) movie I think I’d rather watch a documentary about this but Christian slater and nic cage I love you
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Probably one of the greatest Nicholas Cage movies I’ve seen. The story was incredible, and the ending was emotional.
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Drags along at a slow pace at points but overall a pretty well done war movie.
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There have been other Vietnam movies… but they didn’t have Nic Fuckiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing Cage.
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Graphic, tragic, and a story that chases its tail for too long. Pretty good film tho.
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Literally a war crime to change into the enemies uniform. lol So many slurs. For a movie about Navajo code talkers they do very little Navajo code talking. SAY HIS NAME. Is it weird that Adam Beach is in two different WW2 movies playing a Native American in the Marine Corps?
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The prologue reminded me a lot of 2008’s ‘Tropic Thunder’ in a bad way and once I had that in my head, it kept feeling more and more like Ben Stiller was satirising this particular movie (then quite recent), more than bad Hollywood war movies in general. ‘Windtalkers’ is painfully clichéd stuff but worse than that, it pretty much ignores it’s own subject. Focusing 80% on Nicolas Cage’s white PTSD Sergeant, instead of on the two Navajo characters, which is…
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A very distinct taste of WWII movies, this is a Chow Yun Fat film with Nic Cage instead This film got every theme there is in it, the overt American jingoism is a little too much at times but nothing out of place for war movies after 9/11. John Woo understands the action like no one else. Super entertaining movie overall.
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Of the war movies that came out around this time this one still remains a favourite of mine. The action is brutal and the characters believable if stereotypical. Though the kill count for cage is so high they should have just dropped him in Tokyo to sort things out.
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Over dramatic and over the top WW2 action film. With Nicolas cage being Nicolas’s cage, it’s good if u wanna watch a mind numbing film to dissociate to or for background noise while you have a argument with the wife because u forget to do the dishes.
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Legit one of the best war movies out there I thought that was ruffalo 🥰
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Crazy that i have not seen this before a really great war movie starring a perfect Nicolas Cage in it 😀 cast was also great here all did a very good job in theirs parts The action was just on another level here so cool fights in this one 🙂
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John Woo’s Sam Fuller.
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kevin’s actual doppelganger those who know
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Nick Cage MovieMarathon #37 Apart from the usual dose of hollywood’s WWII heroism and patriotism that these films tend to lean on I really appreciated the decision to shine a light on the native american code talkers and the role they played during the war, It gave the film a perspective that felt far more interesting than the familiar spectacle around it, and added a layer of humanity and historical significance i knew nothing about before.
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John Woo’s directing even cant save an ultra-cliched war movie, where the Navajo code speak hardly comes into a play and the Indigenous characters take abuse and a backseat to Nic Cage’s character
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This film conveniently tiptoes carefully around why Navajo codetalkers got into military service, and what the expectations were of the soldiers around them. For it to use them as a namesake, the film actually focuses far more on the loss in honor of being a soldier, much like most other US war films, especially ones surrounding Saipan. What did the US military do after Saipan?? It was interesting to see the internal changes of the most outwardly intolerant character “Chick”…
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A standard 2000s Oscar bait prestige play elevated by John Woo into operatic grand ballet of violence. Savagery and bloodshed become an elegant dance of explosions and squibs. Woo’s sadistic melodrama harkens back to Bullet in the Head. All this is helped by Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach’s intense and tender lead performances, backed by a stacked supporting cast (Christian Slater, Roger Willie, and Jason Isaacs are the standouts).
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I remember replaying this movie over n over lol
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I watched this because it would be interesting to learn a bit more about the Navajo code talkers, which I though this movie is about and which the name alludes to. But once I started watching the Navajo on barely mentioned and 90 percent of the movie seems to focus on some white guy and HIS struggles. I think I made it about 50 percent through before I gave up. It is full of the most derivative, boring, battle scenes.…
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This is a really good movie another excellent cage film but a brutal story of the war in the pacific
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Any piece of media that paints the native Americans in a good light is always a win in my book. What happened in the 1800s America was just downright demonic. My friend Joe told me to check this out after teaching me about the Navajo people and how vital they were in the war, I knew I had to watch this. WWII must have genuinely been the scariest thing any human could go through. I have this issue where everytime I see Nic Cage in anything, I just imagine it’s a deleted scene from Dream Scenario. I never knew Mark Ruffalo was so goddamn HOT!
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Man I wish John Woo english works were as good as his Hong Kong stuff, also figured out this one of the movies that I walked in on my dad watching and it scared me, particularly the Slater beheading scene, Adam Beach was great
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good watch. enjoyed watching this all thanks to my buddy (grandpops) basically his favorite war movie xd
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JJerry 6 月 24, 2026
More of a grounded film from John Woo,still captures an authentic WW2 setting.Nicolas Cage fits in well as the lead seeing how he and woo have worked in the past.Great cast great pacing,solid Bplus
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Nick Cage Notation ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Je vais me faire incendier mais le scénar est plus logique que celui de “Il faut sauver le soldat Ryan” 🤷🏼
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Cage Match! Year 2, Round 3: Windtalkers vs Lord of War This one was…pretty mid! I’ll acknowledge the positives later but first and foremost this film had quite a bit of issues. Now John Woo is a great filmmaker and his style of directing is definitely iconic, but man it really does not work with this setting. A wartime drama that’s meant to be emotional does NOT feel effective when it’s covered in John Woo’s secret sauce: constant slow mo,…
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John Woo at his pyrotechnic best with a unique war story to show off his skills. As an actor, Nic cage doesn’t always show up but he does for this one. Adam Beach as the Navajo code talke that cage is assigned to protect is also very good. The story line twist is that Cage is actually assigned to protect the code, not the code talker because the code is so valuable. If there is a threat that the code…
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Visited where they filmed the battle scenes
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The moment when Noah Emmerich yelps before battle.. I knew. This was taking itself so melodramatically serious, that it actually came off like it wasn’t taking things so seriously. Although it’s starring Nic Cage so I guess I should have seen that coming.
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Was pretty cheesy at times. Decent story even if it was super fictionalized. Actually watched this whole movie on a plane that never actually made it into the air. Thanks a lot weather
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DC – 6/10
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With action blockbusters like Paycheck, Hard Target, Face/off and MI:2 under his belt, Woo is not a bad director. But tackling a historic story set in WWII is a step too far for him. The Navajos are portrayed decently, Cage is too intense, as usual. And the choice of music under the battle scenes is weird.
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I realized Dave Franco kind of looks like Adam Beach right as this movie started and it’s now all I can think about.
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i really did enjoy cage in this, but i do think the focus on his character overshadowed the actual navajo soldiers storyline
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From the first 15 minutes, with cameras sweeping across Monument Valley, I was expecting Mission: Impossible II, Tom Cruise dangling from cliffs, and a Limp Bizkit soundtrack. Instead, we’re dumped onto a Pacific island where US soldiers scream “DIE!” while firing wildly in every direction, before being immediately killed and Nic Cage bellows “NOOOOO!” THIS IS 100 MILLION DOLLARS OF HOLLYWOOD HEROIC BLOODSHED. THIS IS JOHN WOO.
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Even in the most serious of movies, a cool guy action shot of Nic Cage will always make me laugh
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After watching Spider-Noir, I thought I shoud get more into Nicholas Cage. It’s really good fun. Solid on all levels.
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I fucking hate war movies
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A lot of potential, just didn’t follow through.
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A movie of all time. Guide at Antelope Canyon recommended it because of the Navajo code talkers. There was barely any Navajo code talking. Just a trashy war movie. 100 mil of the 115 mil budget clearly went to explosions. Expected nothing worse from the director of the worst mission impossible movie.
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I’ve wanted to see this movie for a long time, because I’m fascinated by the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the US defeat Japan during WWII. My grandfather also fought on Saipan, which is the battle location at the center of this movie – it’s considered the D-Day of the Pacific Theater and very few people seem to know about it. This is the first time I’ve seen it portrayed in a movie. But I digress. As soon as I…
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i find this movie to be quite good. i cant get enough of war movies, so much to the point i submitted a 1,120 word essay about it for my Humanities class, when the professor said it just needed to be 500 words. I first watched this in middle school after my English teacher recommended it to me. I wasn’t really the type of kid who really watched films as I was too busy watching YouTube and making animations. But…
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Uses the story of Navajo Code Talkers as an excuse to show Nick Cage getting smashed and mowing down hundreds of Japanese soldiers.
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When the word came out that John Woo was coming to Hollywood to expand his career, many of us got pretty excited. Indeed, at the time, Woo was probably the most heralded director coming from Hong Kong and to have his kinetic directing style combined with a massive budget for a wide audience was a nice prospect. Eventually, I’m afraid the end-result was not so impressive after all. I mean, his Hollywood début ‘Hard Target’ was not bad, in fact,…
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Tele Fotogramas 1906 y 1907
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“Windtalkers” comes advertised as the saga of how Navajo Indians used their language to create an unbreakable code that helped win World War II in the Pacific. That’s a fascinating, little-known story and might have made a good movie. Alas, the filmmakers have buried it beneath battlefield cliches, while centering the story on a white character played by Nicolas Cage. I was reminded of “Glory,” the story of heroic African-American troops in the Civil War, which was seen through the…
- Synopsis
- Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
- Director
- John Woo
- Writer
- John Rice, Joe Batteer
- Studio
- Lion Rock Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English, Japanese, Navajo, Navaho
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 134 mins
- Marshall Islands14 Jun 2002
- USA14 Jun 2002
- Malaysia20 Jun 2002
- Hong Kong27 Jun 2002
- Italy28 Jun 2002
- Philippines22 Jul 2002
- Czechia25 Jul 2002
- Taiwan26 Jul 2002
- Australia01 Aug 2002
- Russia08 Aug 2002
- Greenland09 Aug 2002
- Gibraltar14 Aug 2002
- South Korea15 Aug 2002
- Estonia16 Aug 2002
- Poland23 Aug 2002
- Japan24 Aug 2002
- UK30 Aug 2002
- Canada01 Sep 2002
- France04 Sep 2002
- Colombia06 Sep 2002
- Netherlands Antilles12 Sep 2002
- Netherlands12 Sep 2002
- Hungary26 Sep 2002
- Iceland04 Oct 2002
- Switzerland10 Oct 2002
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