Windtalkers

Year: 2002

Grade: C

Country: USA

Director: Woo

Review

has the great john woo action sequences, comic relief, a couple good performances, but all those things suffered from the bigger picture. the flag waving wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been, but still detracted from the film. in the first portion of the film (prior to the meat of the war portion of the film) there were a couple scenes with flag waving and i had hoped that those would be lost later in the film as a sort of message that war quickly clues people in about the truth behind jingoism. sadly the final five minutes reinforced the earlier sentiments…so even though the characters were depicted as having grown, the direction of the film did not – it still held onto the all too familiar precepts laid by 90% of its predecessors in the war film genre.

Watched in theater