I went to see "Wind Talkers" yesterday. It is a "better than good" movie (not great like "Private Ryan", but very good). It is a John Woo film so, it will be action packed. Some of the explosions are a bit overdone, and there is the "give this to my wife if I don't make it" stuff.

Also the story line of the Code Talkers being in the scout platoons as forward observers for artillery/naval support didn't seem right to me. I don't know the story behind the code talkers, but I thought they were more at Batt/Regt level. Of course, a movie about relaying messages at rear area Batt. HQ doesn't make for much of a movie.

Good Points: All the equipment is right on, both USMC and Japanese stuff (I really like the working Ha Go tanks), even down to the right type of USMC dog tags (they were different from US Army). Weapons have to be re-loaded and combat scenes are very action packed. Computer graphics for the air strikes was well done. The brief scenes of Nick Cage recovering in the hospital has nurses with 1940 haircuts (not the flowing manes of the movie Pearl Harbor).

My favorite scene is when their Marine scout unit is in combat for the first time. Nick Cage is the only combat veteran (fought in the Solomons) and the others freeze up at first sight of the carnage on the battlefield. Cage moves forward and cuts down 3 Japanese with a Thompson and then a Japanese soldier in a "spider hole" pops up next to him. Cage kicks up the camo cover over the hole, standing above the Japanese, he shoots him about 15 times at close range with the Thompson. Blows the sh*t out of him (good special effects). The green Marines are horrified that this man who was so quiet in the rear areas is capable of this level of violence. They soon learn that this is how to stay alive. If you haven't seen Wind Talkers I would go. Well worth the admission price.