Windtalkers (2002)
Directed by John Woo
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
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What critics compared Windtalkers to
The Pacific theatre was a devastating arena - the Battle of Okinawa alone lasted for almost three months and resulted in 82,000 casualties – and no film has captured the campaign there with this much ferocity before (more recent attempts include John Woo’s Windtalkers, about the invasion of Saipan, in 2002, and Terrence Malick’s Guadalcanal-set The Thin Red Line in 1998).
In the somewhat similar Windtalkers, at least John Woo made sure you knew where you were and who the players were.