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Windtalkers
the one line review:
boom boom snore snore
the overview
There've been a spate of war film wannabes recently. Well maybe not a spate, but it seems like I've been watching them all. In amongst them all, this doesn't cut anyone's mustard.
the plot:
Nicolas Cage is Marine in WW2 who, recovering from a serious case of the bomb exploding near the face, is assigned a new task of protecting a Navajo Indian who is a codetalker - someone who relays secret messages across the radios. They go off to battle and blah blah, Cage has to protect the Indian.
the verdict:
The opening scene, where it sets the story, is pitiful. We see Cage get his unit killed and yes, that scars him (physically and mentally). He then battles with this whilst trying to do his job.
This does not rate as a good war epic, Saving Private Ryan, and even Black Hawk Down, have a lot on this. It's got some good actors in it, and the standard array of dead people, bullets and explosions, but it's all too predictable, Cage isn't convincing, and it doesn't work.
Only rent this if you're a die hard Cage fan (not a Die Hard fan).
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