Windtalkers (Blu-ray) R
Honor Was Their Code.
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Windtalkers (Director's Cut)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 19, 2009
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater & Adam Beach | |
Performer: | Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Brian Van Holt, Roger Willie & Frances O'Connor | |
Directed by | John Woo | |
Edited by | Jeff Gullo | |
Screenwriting by | John Rice & Joe Batteer | |
Composition by | James Horner | |
Produced by | John Woo, Terence Chang, Tracie Graham & Alison Rosenzweig | |
Director of Photography: | Jeffrey L. Kimball | |
Executive Production by | C.O. Erickson |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Woo approached the filming of the WINDTALKERS combat scenes with his usual gusto...
Los Angeles Times
...The performances are perfectly palatable...
Box Office
It's a great director doing what he does best but ultimately not really doing justice to the Navajo code talkers story.
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Cinapse
Rating: 3/5 --
War film relies too much on relentless violence.
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Common Sense Media
With Windtalkers, the glaring refutations of time, space and reality impress upon viewers the simple fact that Woo is at his best when he isn't attempting anything more significant than the most emptily satisfying explosion you're likely to enjoy - a scat
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IGN Movies
Rating: 3/4 --
The history is fascinating; the action is dazzling. They just don't work in concert.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
...There are plenty of intricately choreographed battle scenes in WINDTALKERS, but action meister Woo also finds the complicated humanity in this offbeat tale of American friendship and obsession...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Product Description:
WINDTALKERS begins quietly--with widescreen aerial shots of clouds that gradually clear to reveal the beautiful mesas of Monument Valley. A bus collects Navajo volunteers Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) and Charlie Whitehorse (Roger Willie). It's 1943, and the U.S. has developed an indecipherable secret military code based on the Navajo language. Yahzee and Whitehorse are to be trained as code talkers.
Then John Woo's Pacific war film erupts into violence, with a savage battle that has one survivor, Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage). Badly wounded and feeling guilty at the loss of his companions, Joe recuperates in Hawaii where he is helped by a sympathetic nurse (Frances O'Connor). Joe disguises his hearing loss and he is promoted as Yahzee's battlefield bodyguard. Ordered to "protect the code at all times," Joe must prevent Yahzee from being captured. At first, Yahzee and Whitehorse, whose bodyguard is Ox Henderson (Christian Slater), are subjected to prejudice--particularly from Rogers (Noah Emmerich). But when the unit is shipped to Saipan, the Marines begin to appreciate the code talkers.
Director Woo has created a powerful drama. The visceral battle sequences are strikingly filmed and there is fine acting from Cage, Beach, Willie, Slater, Emmerich, and Frances O'Connor, who portrays the poignancy of love in uncertain times.
Then John Woo's Pacific war film erupts into violence, with a savage battle that has one survivor, Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage). Badly wounded and feeling guilty at the loss of his companions, Joe recuperates in Hawaii where he is helped by a sympathetic nurse (Frances O'Connor). Joe disguises his hearing loss and he is promoted as Yahzee's battlefield bodyguard. Ordered to "protect the code at all times," Joe must prevent Yahzee from being captured. At first, Yahzee and Whitehorse, whose bodyguard is Ox Henderson (Christian Slater), are subjected to prejudice--particularly from Rogers (Noah Emmerich). But when the unit is shipped to Saipan, the Marines begin to appreciate the code talkers.
Director Woo has created a powerful drama. The visceral battle sequences are strikingly filmed and there is fine acting from Cage, Beach, Willie, Slater, Emmerich, and Frances O'Connor, who portrays the poignancy of love in uncertain times.
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