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Windtalkers [Blu-ray]

Nicolas Cage (Actor), Adam Beach (Actor), John Woo (Director) Rated:

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During WWII, two U.S. Marines are assigned to protect two Navajo Marines code talkers. These men know a secret radio code that is much valuable than their individual lives.

Product details

Aspect Ratio : 2.40:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
MPAA rating : s_medR R (Restricted)
Product Dimensions : 6.75 x 5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 Ounces
Item model number : 2221520
Director : John Woo
Media Format : Blu-ray, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
Run time : 2 hours and 14 minutes
Release date : November 28, 2006
Actors : Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo
Dubbed: : English, French, Spanish
Subtitles: : Spanish, French
Producers : Alison R. Rosenzweig, Arthur Anderson, C.O. Erickson, Caroline Macaulay, John J. Smith
Language : French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Studio : WarnerBrothers
ASIN : B000JSI7C6
Writers : Joe Batteer, John Rice
Number of discs : 1

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Michael Delaware

Historically inaccurate on many points

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2018

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If you read the memoir of one of the original Code Talkers Chester Nez, you will be very disappointed in the way they were depicted in this movie.
To begin, the marines who served with them did not know they were code talkers. Also they were sent into the field in pairs, and they gave constant reports from the front lines in battle, moving after every transmission so as not to be detected. In the pair, one wrote while the other operated the radio. They switched roles when one got tired.
The depiction of an individual marine assigned to shadow them is inaccurate and a fabrication of Hollywood. There could have been marines assigned in their unit with orders to shoot them, but this has never been verified.
The term code talker was not officially released until it was declassified during the Nixon administration in the 70's, up until then their role in the war was classified, even to ground troops who served with them. The code talkers were debriefed before returning home that they could not even tell their families what they did or even mention the existence of the code.
Showing the Navajo code talker going off on his own and bathing, or holding ceremonies is also a stretch.
There are also a lot of other points about the movie that does not align with other memoirs from soldiers who served in the Pacific theatre, like every soldier having a pistol, marines leaving a hill behind a village unguarded and calling it 'secure'. Also the last scene showing a soldier taking home another's dog tags was just not done. Also the terrain looked like the shot the whole film in California.
It's an entertaining action movie, and some of the fight scenes are good. However, if you really want to know the real exciting story, read Chester Nez's memoir and hope that someone comes along and write a script based on those real events.

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Jeff Brown

Not what you'd expect. Disappointing.

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2018

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The film was little more than nonstop full-on-bloody combat scenes. The wind talkers story was the back drop but was not the focus of the film. The title theme was lost in the over-the-top carnage. The actual focus was Joe Enders (Cage) and his struggle with the horrors of war. Very Disappointing. They presented but failed to develop the obligatory love story. Could have been a good movie but they totally missed it. Beyond that there were many historical errors and misrepresented facts for entertainment sake. A very poor job of telling the story of the wind talkers. I give it three stars just because of what it was, a dramatic action-packed war movie. The true Wind Talkers story deserves better.

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Loretta Nickerson

Good Introduction to Navajo Code Talkers

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2018

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Good story line with information about the Navajo Code Talkers in WWII. It's an introduction to the topic at least. Definitely not a documentary, but does shed some light on these brave Native American heroes. The film is a bit dated. Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach give fine performances. I gave it four stars because the focus of the story is really on Cage's character and his battle with "Shell Shock" as he returns to the Pacific Theater. I would like to have seen more focus on the Navajo Code Talkers. I've ordered a documentary film for more info. Overall it was a good story. I would recommend it for those who enjoy stories about WWII.

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Laurie E. Miller

Roger Willie steals scenes, Adam Beach is good, too bad there's screen time wasted on Nicolas Cage.

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2018

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I remember going to see this with a crowd of people, and most of the guys hadn't heard of codetalkers, but were fascinated by the concept and we were all looking forward to a movie about them. To our frustration, most of the movie was wasted on Nicolas Cage looking constipated. The consensus of the group afterwards was that the bits focused on the codetalkers were good, if not always accurate, and the rest of the movie was a waste of time. And we all agreed that if we could change the movie however we wanted, what we all wanted to see was two hours of Roger Willie being awesome, because he's that charismatic. Roger Willie's charisma is why I'm giving it 4 stars.

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"jarmor"

Extremely disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2019

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Gross over-reliance on visual effects. Every 1-lb grenade and bazooka round has the effect of a 2000-pound incendiary bomb. Not a bullet fired that doesn't spray blood, every Hellcat fighter flies 10 feet above their target and not one bomb missed ever! Each (small) 250 pound fighter-dropped bomb exploded with mountain-moving impact. Also, I expected to learn about the strategic impact of the Wind-talkers, not the just the Saipan tactical "we need air-support" stuff. Why do you need code-talkers to call in air-support? You need code-talkers to secretly bring the naval fleet to Okinawa! This was a horrible disappointment.

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Pearl of the Dark Age

Don't buy; rent instead.

Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2020

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This was not a great movie. It wasn't even a good movie. It was meh with lots of disappointment. I expected the movie to be about Navajo code-talkers, but instead I got a movie about Nicolas Cage and his drama. I get that PTSD is something to make movies about, but I would watch a different movie for that! This wasn't about the code-talkers. They were supporting characters in a movie about Cage and his PTSD.

What you will get: one shoe-horned superfluous love story, a dozen stereotyped characters, a buttload of explosions, olympic pools of some of the fakest blood I've seen in a long time, a few "Awww, American soldiers are good to Japanese kids" moments, and the most embarrassing slo-mo of the worst acting right at the climax... I cringed; it was so bad!!!

Eh, this movie is a rental if you really, really want to watch it, but I highly recommend you don't buy it unless you've already seen it and - for whatever reason - like it enough to buy it.

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Rebecca Hansberger

There in the lobby was a wonderful tribute to the men who were the Code Talkers ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2016

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My husband and I recently stopped at a Comfort Inn in Gallup NM. There in the lobby was a wonderful tribute to the men who were the Code Talkers or Windtalkers during World War II.. This sparked our interest to watch the movie.
Although it is not an true story it is a story it causes us to remember all the men and women who sacrificed so much to go to war for the freedom of our land. This movie makes you cry and proud of the bravery and sacrifice of these Navajo men, who answered the call. Let's never forget. Thank you for making this movie, if not for the movie many of us would not have known about these men.

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Big Cheese

An Excellent Film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 26, 2016

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There's a quote on the box of this DVD claiming that this is 'one of the best war movies of all time'. I was ready to pour scorn on such a bold claim, but actually, I don't think that's too far off the truth. It's not perfect, but I can't give 4.5 stars, so 5 it is.

The plot involves Nicolas Cage's tough, mentally tortured sergeant being required to protect a code that is part of the Navajo language and is embodied by a native speaker of the language. We follow the two men and their comrades through several battles as the US Marine Corps makes its way across Saipan against entrenched and fearsome opposition.

There are a couple of negatives, such as the slightly irrelevant sub-plot relating to a nurse who tended Cage's character earlier in the war, the occasional resort to cliché, and some pretty unbelievable stuff during some of the battle sequences. But none of these negatives really detracts from the quality of the film overall.

Those battle sequences are viscerally terrifying, and should leave the viewer, as they did me, in no doubt about the horrors of war, and eternally grateful to those who fought and died in WW2. The film also develops the relationships between the men without quite ever becoming too mawkish or sentimental - although there is just enough of the latter to leave you feeling moved. The film tells a good story about a little-known aspect of the war, with good characters and excellent acting. A fine film indeed.

The DVD itself had slightly dodgy sound - I had to turn the volume up a fair bit. There are a number of special features, which look like they might be pretty good if you like that sort of thing - I don't particularly, so I haven't watched them.

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MR M JAMES

and turned it into a 'wham bam' action flick better suited to Rambo

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 7, 2017

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This film has done a grave disservice to the Navajo Nation. It took a very important story from WW2, and turned it into a 'wham bam' action flick better suited to Rambo. I knew as much about the 'windtalkers' at the end of the movie as I did at the start, because almost the whole film consists of US Marines firing off weapons and killing the Japanese. The film is also way too long. Done right, a whole hour could have been shaved off, and more time spent on the code story itself. Nicolas Cage was not a convincing lead either. If I was a Navajo, I think I would have been on the warpath over this trivial portrayal of the Navajo contribution to the war in the Pacific.

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A.E.U Blockman

This film depicts the natural Americans in WW2.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2017

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This DVD is about the natural Americans who served in WW2 as to fool the Japanese by speaking their natural tongue as code to the different units. This code was never broken by the Japanese. Nicolas Cage and all the main actors are brilliant and the film is really gritty and down to earth.

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Happy Shopper

Excellent service and Quality.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2019

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Super fast delivery,really enjoyed seeing this movie again, picture quality and sound are excellent, more than happy with the purchase and the seller would highly recommend both, delivery was fast to,also good price, thank you.

Beacon97

Very Good Extended Director's Cut.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2017

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Excellent extended version. Adds more scale to the battles and some more background and character scenes. It's not just added to, it's re-edited in sections too. Very good version, well worth a watch. Commentaries and extras are excellent too.

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