Combining John Woo with Nick Cage was a stroke of genius. If you saw either Face Off or ConAir, which weren't bad, you will quickly see that Mr. Cage may have given his best in this film. I was impressed.

I was equally empressed with Adam Beach's preformance. His constant smile gave an almost calming effect to that calamity we call, war.

The story is based on a truth. The Marines did enlist Navajo Indians to radio code using their own language. They were called "codetalkers." In this film Nick Cage is assigned to protect the Navajo codetalker and to protect the code.

He is in a difficult position. Beach's character is totally likeable. But if Nicholas Cage, as Joe Enders, becomes to attached to Adam Beach, as Ben Yahzee, should Ben be captured, Joe will find it difficult to complete his assingment, which is to kill Ben.

Music by James "Titanic" Horner, direction by John Woo, and solid preformances by Nicholas Cage and Adam Beach make "Windtalkers" one very well done movie.

Words really can't explain the way this movie made me feel, but I'll try. It was horrifying. If I had been at home alone, I probably would have cried the whole way through. As it was I was on the verge of tears quite often throughout the movie in the theater. It was a shock to me, I guess. I've seen "Saving Private Ryan" and "A Thin Red Line," both of which are excellent movies which I think portrayed the truth of war quite well. But "The Windtalkers" was different. Much more impacting. Where as in most war movies, when there isn't fighting, there's a lull in the awfulness. This movie had much less of that because when there's a lull in the action, the characters have a chance to think and dwell on the awfulness that they've been through. I imagine that's what it's really like in a war, but I've never seen that portrayed until this movie.

This movie represents to me what war is - awful, dirty, mind numbing, terrifying, horrible. And it is because of that realness that I love it. I think it is a memorial to the men who were there fighting for our country. I think it honors them in ways little else can. You see what they went though, you feel their pain and terror, you see them dying, you see them having to deal with watching their friends get shot and blown up... and you feel it all. The emotion you feel from this movie can't be put into words. And in feeling that it brings greater understanding of war and greater appreciation for those soldiers. This movie helps us to honor the men who fought and died for us and to remember why we should do everything we can to avoid sending our men and women into something like that again.

TRACK LISTING
1) Beck's Bolero
2) Eternity's Breath
3) Stratus
4) Cause We've Ended As Lovers
5) Behind The Veil
6) You Never Know
7) Nadia
8) Blast From The East
9) Led Boots
10) Angel (Footsteps)
11) People Get Ready - with JOSS STONE
12) Scatterbrain
13) Goodbye Pork Pie Hat / Brush With The Blues
14) Space Boogie
15) Blanket - with IMOGEN HEAP
16) Big Block
17) A Day In The Life
18) Little Brown Bird - with ERIC CLAPTON
19) You Need Love - with ERIC CLAPTON
20) Rollin' And Tumblin' - with IMOGEN HEAP
21) Where Were You

Bonus Material:
Jeff Beck Interview: rare in depth interview talking about Ronnie Scott's, his band, the setlist and his guest performers.Interviews with the band members: Tal Wilkenfeld (bass), Vinnie Colaiuta (drums), Jason Rebello (keyboards).

Blu-ray Exclusive Material: 7 Track rockabilly set with the Big Town Playboys exclusively available on the Blu-ray version:
1) Race With The Devil
2) Crazy Legs
3) Train Kept A Rollin'
4) My Baby Left Me
5) Matchbox
6) Baby Blue
7) Honky Tonk.
Jeff Beck on the rockabilly set + Big Town Playboys interview