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NUMBERS
Box Office: $40,531,308
VHS Rentals: $14,380,000
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CONSENSUS
The action sequences are expertly staged. Windtalkers, however, sinks under too many clichés and only superficially touches upon the story of the code talkers.
CAST & CREW
Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Christian Slater
Directed by John Woo
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SYNOPSIS
WINDTALKERS begins quietly--with widescreen aerial shots of clouds that gradually clear to reveal the beautiful mesas of Monument Valley. more...
MPAA RATING
R, for pervasive graphic war violence, and for language
RUNTIME
2 hours, 14 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jun 14, 2002
Video: May 20, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
MGM/UA
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Dramas, Action, World War II
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Windtalkers Site
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 "This is the first full scale WWII flick from Hong Kong's John Woo. He's not good with people."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"When it comes to the battle of Hollywood vs. Woo, it looks like Woo's a P.O.W."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
"What ultimately makes Windtalkers a disappointment is the superficial way it deals with its story."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Woo has as much right to make a huge action sequence as any director, but how long will filmmakers copy the “Saving Private Ryan” battle scenes before realizing Steven Spielberg got it right the first time?"
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
 "Woo's fights have a distinct flair. His warriors collide in balletic explosion that implies an underlying order throughout the chaos."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"The directive to protect the code at all costs also begins to blur as the importance of the man and the code merge"
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"A man leaving the screening said the film was better than Saving Private Ryan. He may have meant the Internet short Saving Ryan's Privates. But Windtalkers doesn't beat that one, either."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"[Woo's] most resonant film since The Killer."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"With its dogged Hollywood naturalism and the inexorable passage of its characters toward sainthood, Windtalkers is nothing but a sticky-sweet soap."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
"Isn't quite the equal of Woo's best earlier work, but it's easily his finest American film...comes close to recapturing the brilliance of his Hong Kong films."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"This is a great subject for a movie, but Hollywood has squandered the opportunity, using it as a prop for warmed-over melodrama and the kind of choreographed mayhem that director John Woo has built his career on."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"Strip it of all its excess debris, and you'd have a 90-minute, four-star movie. As it is, it's too long and unfocused."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"An uninspired preachy and clichéd war film."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
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"That the Chuck Norris "grenade gag" occurs about 7 times during Windtalkers is a good indication of how serious-minded the film is."
-- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"The major problem with Windtalkers is that the bulk of the movie centers on the wrong character."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"An appealing and well-acted film."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Unfortunately, contrived plotting, stereotyped characters and Woo's over-the-top instincts as a director undermine the moral dilemma at the movie's heart."
-- Dave Tianen, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"Done in mostly by a weak script that can't support the epic treatment."
-- Gary Thompson, PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
"Some of the most ravaging, gut-wrenching, frightening war scenes since "Saving Private Ryan" have been recreated by John Woo in this little-known story of Native Americans and their role in the second great war."
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"Windtalkers celebrates the human spirit and packs an emotional wallop."
-- Lisa Stokes, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"...if you, like me, think an action film disguised as a war tribute is disgusting to begin with, then you're in for a painful ride."
-- Steven Snyder, ZERTINET MOVIES
"In the wake of Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down and We Were Soldiers, you are likely to be as heartily sick of mayhem as Cage's war-weary marine."
-- Neil Smith, BBCI FILMS
"It's mired in a shabby script that piles layer upon layer of Action Man cliché atop wooden dialogue and a shifting tone that falls far short of the peculiarly moral amorality of [Woo's] best work."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
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ROTTEN 38%
Avg. Rating: 5.8/10 |
"Windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying, the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults even as you have to admit that somehow it hit you where you live."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"The screenplay sabotages the movie's strengths at almost every juncture. All the characters are stereotypes, and their interaction is numbingly predictable."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Throwing in everything except someone pulling the pin from a grenade with his teeth, Windtalkers seems to have ransacked every old World War II movie for overly familiar material."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"The code talkers deserved better than a hollow tribute."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"No amount of burning, blasting, stabbing, and shooting can hide a weak script."
-- Paul Tatara, CNN
"The history is fascinating; the action is dazzling. They just don't work in concert."
-- Jeff Strickler, MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE
"Directed without the expected flair or imagination by Hong Kong master John Woo, Windtalkers airs just about every cliche in the war movie compendium across its indulgent two-hour-and-fifteen-minute length."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Windtalkers blows this way and that, but there's no mistaking the filmmaker in the tall grass, true to himself."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"I wish Windtalkers had had more faith in the dramatic potential of this true story. This would have been better than the fiction it has concocted, and there still could have been room for the war scenes."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"A relentless, bombastic and ultimately empty World War II action flick."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
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"Disappointing in comparison to other recent war movies…or any other John Woo flick for that matter."
-- Paul Salfen, SUPERCALA.COM
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