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Film · MGM · 2002

Windtalkers

Name: Windtalkers scores 45 — Live Historic
Item: Windtalkers
Rating: 45
Author: Live Historic

45Watch it awake.

The code is the point. The film would rather be a shootout. The order is the moral problem it keeps dropping.

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The review

The Navajo code was a genuine advantage in the Pacific, and the men who carried it were under rules a film could have taken seriously. Windtalkers invents a white guardian whose secret order is to kill the code talker rather than let the code be taken. That dilemma is worth a quiet movie. This is not a quiet movie. It is an explosion with a dilemma taped on.

I would not use it to teach the code talkers. Find a plainer account and learn a true name. If someone has already seen this, ask only one question: what was the order, and did the film care about it as much as it cared about the next blast? The answer is the review.

Journal

Keep Windtalkers in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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56 instead of 45

Cold Mountain is still a war film, and it scores 56 instead of 45. What you gain is household: The marriage is mostly a promise.

The eight

6
Industry
The code is a real weapon, a language used as a craft. The film says so and then forgets.
4
Household
A friendship between the protector and the talker is the household it wants.
3
Piety
Navajo prayer is present and then crowded out by the battle.
6
Courage
The talker under fire is courage. The protector's order is a different, darker duty.
5
Republic
A country using a people's language in a war, after what it had done to that people, is the fact the film is too busy for.
3
Temperance
John Woo films combat as choreography. The choreography is the insult.
5
Truth
The code talkers are real. This story about an execution order is a fiction laid over them.
4
Stewardship
What it leaves is noise, when the inheritance should have been the language and the order.

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Film · Warner Bros. · 2025

A Minecraft Movie

45Watch it awake.

The craft is the good idea. The joke is louder than the craft. Children will come anyway.

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The review

A game about placing blocks is one of the few popular games that is secretly about work. The film knows that for a few minutes at a time, and then it remembers it is a brand and starts shouting. Children went in enormous numbers. The number of tickets is not the measure. The measure is whether they come home wanting to make something or wanting the next joke.

Watch it with them if they are going anyway. Afterwards put a real material in their hands — paper, wood, dough — and build one thing that is not a reference. That is the part the film kept dropping.

Journal

Keep A Minecraft Movie in the record.