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Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage), the Marine hero in John Woo's square but emotionally satisfying Second World War film, "Windtalkers," is not a temperate guy in the style of, say, Tom Hanks's Army officer in "Saving Private Ryan"--an ordinary man who steels himself for war. Joe is steely to begin with, a natural fighter, a war lover even, morose, relentless, at home amid the pain of battle. In a chaotic prologue set in the Solomon Islands, Joe follows orders and refuses to abandon a hopeless position as his friends in the outfit get killed. When we see him after the battle, resting in a hospital, his hearing is shot, and he has guilty hallucinations--he's "a mess," as an ...