Joe enders played by nicolas cage is a marine coping with the complete loss of his platoon in the solomon islands. Overall, windtalkers is a war movie that is driven on a cliched story. Nicolas cage was born nicolas kim coppola in long beach, california, the son of comparative. Nicolas cage, adam beach, peter stormare, noah emmerich, mark ruffalo, brian van holt, martin henderson, roger willie, frances oconnor, christian slater.
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. Feb 05, 2014 loosely based on a reallife operation during world war ii, this actionadventure from director john woo stars nicolas cage as joe enders, a marine traumatized by the loss of his entire platoon in. Rare 2002 windtalkers vhs nicolas cage full battle picture factory sealed. Windtalkers 2002 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Nicolas cage and christian slater star with adam beach smoke signals in this. He is racked with guilt and feeling as though his indecision during an ambush is what led to the loss of the entire platoon. On the plus side, cage, slater, and a solid supporting cast of character actors are all dependably good, and its interesting to see john woos distinctive action style put into a war film. The film was released in the united states on june 14, 2002. Thats a fascinating, littleknown story and might have made a good movie. Realistic, yet it takes the focus off the navajo codetalkers and places it on nicolas cage stalking rambolike through the field killing everyone in sight. Memovies is the original 123movies, gostream, gomovies and 123movieshub site domain, you can check on wikipedia. Faceoff castor troy 1997 leaving las vegas ben sanderson 1995 the rock stanley goodspeed 1996 next cris johnson 2007 grand isle walter 2019 primal frank walsh 2019.
Nicolas cage, only peripherally involved in the code language activities that are supposedly the subject of. Windtalkers is a 2002 american war film directed and produced by john woo, starring nicolas cage, adam beach, peter stormare, noah emmerich, mark ruffalo, and christian slater. But i will give the movie points in part due to nic cages powerful. Jennifer lawrence and chris pratt to star in passengers.
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Loosely based on a reallife operation during world war ii, this actionadventure from director john woo stars nicolas cage as joe enders. Some people may like the film, while others may despise it. Also the terrain looked like the shot the whole film in california. Windtalkers on showtime a wwii soldier safeguards a navajo whose language is an. Cage has appeared in over 110 films throughout his career. One is a navajo code talker and the other is the marine assigned to protect him and the code. Nov 14, 2017 windtalkers follows suit of most postsaving private ryan war films and tries to make its point by dousing us with relentless violence. Watch windtalkers online stream full movie directv. The wind talkers story was the back drop but was not the focus of the film.
Windtalkers, however, sinks under too many cliches and only superficially touches upon the. Windtalkers dvd christian slater nicolas cage wind takers. I have watched many war films, and the sheer body count in this one seems much higher than average. Mark ruffalo in windtalkers 2002 nicolas cage and john woo in windtalkers 2002. The filmography of american actor, director and producer, nicolas cage includes the year the film was or will be released, the name of his character, the director, and other related notes. Nicolas cage and adam beach give fine performances. Fire birds 1990 nicolas cage, tommy lee jones, sean young movies. The film was little more than nonstop fullonbloody combat scenes. Windtalkers 2002 cast and crew marine joe enders nicolas cage is assigned to protect ben yahzee adam beach a navajo code talker, the marines new secret weapon. Windtalkers official trailer full movie nicolas cage movie 2002 hd youtube. Watch online windtalkers 2002 free full movie with english subtitle. Follow the movie on facebook plot summary marine joe enders nicolas cage is assigned to protect ben yahzee adam beach a navajo code talker, the marines new secret weapon. The film was little more than nonstop full onbloody combat scenes. Released june 14th, 2002, windtalkers stars nicolas cage, adam beach, peter stormare, noah emmerich the r movie has a runtime of about 2 hr 14 min, and received a score of 51 out of 100 on.
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The battleground is in the pacific in world war ii and the u. Windtalkers john woo, nicolas cage, adam beach, peter. Windtalkers follows suit of most postsaving private ryan war films and tries to make its point by dousing us with relentless violence. Windtalkers is a world war ii film where two us marine sergeants nicolas cage and christian slater must protect two navajo marine code talkers in the battle of saipan.
Windtalkers trailer a marine sergeant nicolas cage is assigned to protect a navajo code talker adam beach in this epic world war ii. Windtalkers is shapelessly gratifying, the kind of movie that invites you to pick apart its faults even as you have to admit that. Rent windtalkers 2002 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Alas, the filmmakers have buried it beneath battlefield cliches, while centering the story on a white character played by nicolas cage. Loosely based on a reallife operation during world war ii, this actionadventure from director john woo stars nicolas cage as joe enders, a marine traumatized by the loss of his entire platoon in. Windtalkers is a 2002 american war film directed and produced by john woo, starring nicolas cage, adam beach, peter stormare, noah emmerich, mark. Actor nicolas cage has always strived to make a name for himself based on his work, rather than on his lineage. As the nephew of filmmaker performerp85868francis ford coppolafrancisfordcoppola, cage altered his last name to avoid. I liked many aspects of the film, but other aspects were just doomed to failure such as the story and authenticity. Hulu announces over 100 new movies and tv shows for june. A marine nicolas cage protects a navajo code transmitter adam beach in world war ii. Windtalkers 510 movie clip saipan, june 44 2002 hd.