Windtalkers (2000)

On December 8, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan. For the next several years, U.S. forces were fully engaged in battle throughout the Pacific, taking over islands one by one in a slow progression towards mainland Japan. During this brutal campaign, the Japanese were continually able to break coded military transmissions, dramatically slowing U.S. progress. In 1942, several hundred Navajo Americans were recruited as Marines and trained to use their language as code. Marine Joe Enders is assigned to protect Ben Yahzee - a Navajo code talker, the Marines' new secret weapon. Enders' orders are to protect his code talker, but if Yahzee should fall into enemy hands, he's to "protect the code at all costs." Against the backdrop of the horrific Battle of Saipan, when capture is imminent, Enders is forced to make a decision: if he can't protect his fellow Marine, can he bring himself to kill him to protect the code?

Review by Varia Gallery's

When director John Woo looks at a script in order to decide if it's a good one for him to do, he must look first for action sequences, on which he has a certain patented style. Or, if not style, at least a body of work that affords him his reputation as an action director. With the historical background of World War II, this story of how Navajo speakers created a code that was unbreakable by the Japanese, provided action in sufficient amounts to satisfy his criteria.

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