Synopsis of Windtalkers

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Director: John Woo

Writer: John Rice / Joe Bartel

Starring: Nicolas Cage / Adam Beach / Peter Stormare / Noah Emmerich / Mark Ruffalo / More...

Genre: Action / History / War

Country of production: United States

Language: English / Navajo / Japanese

Release date: 2002-06-14 (United States)

Length: 134 minutes / 153 minutes (Director's Cut)

Also known as: Bloody Wind Chaser (Hong Kong) / Wind Chaser (Taiwan) / Windtalkers / Wind Chaser / Wind Fighter

This is a film based on the Pacific War in World War II. The language of the wind, in war, refers to the radio waves that convey countless secrets. Every wind talker carries high-level military secrets.

Ben Yazzie (Adam Beach) is such a wind talker. Marine Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage) is ordered to protect Ben Yazzie and the secrets in the radio waves. In the crucial Battle of Saipan, how will Joe Enders protect his comrades and national secrets? What choices will he face? This film may give us some thoughts about war.

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yangguang

The plot is terrible, and from the very beginning it all points to the seemingly struggling and tragic ending; the dialogues are terrible, with those words pretending to be clever but actually irrelevant; the characterizations are terrible, and they are all dull and superficial; the scene descriptions are terrible, and they become out of place with a few typical things of the Wu family, especially the war scenes, which are simply distorted and a failure as a blockbuster.

yangguang

Dedicated to the great and mysterious Navajo code that has not yet been deciphered. The film is full of the violent aesthetics of director John Woo, with the transition between the long-range and close-up views of the war. Uncle Cage's acting was so good that it made people want to cry. In fact, I prefer the combination of the white horse and the bull, "harmonious". The Grand Canyon scenery echoes from beginning to end, but it's a pity that people's fate is not.

yangguang

Cage seems to always be a type of Hollywood man: slightly bald head, drunken eyes that occasionally reveal a scorching light; on one hand, he is decadent, confused, and mentally different in life; on the other hand, he is highly skilled, wise, brave, and invincible. Whether he is a liar or a soldier, he represents a tendency of men: the beauty of decadence.

yangguang

To be honest, this is a very good film with a unique perspective, about protecting the alternative friendship of a windtalker. The technique is unique. John Woo used the technique of making police and gangster films to make a war film, which actually has a different momentum and feeling. It's a pity that the American people do not quite agree with this approach of "White Dove Double Guns", and it became the box office Waterloo of the box office director John Woo.

yangguang

One of John Woo's best films. The action scenes are passable, the supporting characters are vague, and the plot is still clichéd, but the characters of the two protagonists are interesting, and it also criticizes the racial policies of white Americans. The long shots of the war scenes are okay, but the mid-shots and close-ups are fake. In addition, many people were burned, which I like.

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