Storyline
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.
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83
Portland Oregonian
Cage is superb as a hollowed-out, ferocious man of action chasing his demons recklessly with machine gun firing away.
80
The A.V. Club
Well matched both to the material and each other, Cage and Beach capture Windtalkers' true struggle, the fight to hold on to values like honor, friendship, and tenderness in an environment that demands otherwise. This is as much a Woo trademark as the carefully orchestrated gunplay.
63
Baltimore Sun
Woo's antiwar intentions and his talent are at odds. In Windtalkers, war is a beautiful hell.
50
New Times (L.A.)
The over-the-top sincerity that is so rewarding in "Face/Off" (1998), Woo's best American film, feels too clichéd in this more conventional context.
50
Not all it might have been, an oddly old-fashioned film from a director who's usually anything but.
