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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Ox and Whitehorse are played by talented actors who have some good chemistry together and might have been able to carry the movie themselves, but they don't get nearly as much screentime as most fans would have liked.

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** Many reviewers criticized the fact the windtalkers the film is named after are relegated to supporting characters, while the lead is played by a white actor.
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Ox and Whitehorse are played by talented actors who have some good chemistry together and might have been able to carry the movie themselves, but they don't get nearly as much screentime as most fans would have liked.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Ox and Charlie are played by talented actors who have some good chemistry together and might have been able to carry the movie themselves, but they don't get nearly as much screentime as most fans would have liked.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Ox and Charlie Whitehorse are played by talented actors who have some good chemistry together and might have been able to carry the movie themselves, but they don't get nearly as much screentime as most fans would have liked.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Ox and Charlie are played by talented actors who have some good chemistry together and might have been able to carry the movie themselves, but they don't get nearly as much screentime as most fans would have liked.
* UnfortunateImplications: [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/windtalkers-2002 The movie's critics]] [[http://www.plume-noire.com/movies/reviews/windtalkers.html typically point out that the film focuses primarily on Nicholas Cage, while barely developing the Wind Talkers themselves at all.]]

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Ox and Charlie are played by talented actors who have some good chemistry together and might have been able to carry the movie themselves, but they don't get nearly as much screentime as most fans would have liked.
* UnfortunateImplications: [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/windtalkers-2002 The movie's critics]] [[http://www.plume-noire.com/movies/reviews/windtalkers.html typically point out that the film focuses primarily on Nicholas Cage, while barely developing the Wind Talkers themselves at all.]]
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Ox and Charlie are played by talented actors who have some good chemistry together and might have been able to carry the movie themselves, but they don't get nearly as much screentime as most fans would have liked.
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* UnfortunateImplications: [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/windtalkers-2002 The movie's critics]] [[http://www.plume-noire.com/movies/reviews/windtalkers.html typically point out that the film focuses primarily on Nicholas Cage, while barely developing the Wind Talkers themselves at all.]]
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* UnfortunateImplications: Plenty of people have pointed out how this is yet another case of a story about a minority being told through the eyes of a white person.
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* HilariousInHindsight: When Chick is talking how after the war the [=USA=] and Japan will became allies and friends, not even he believes that joke...

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* HilariousInHindsight: When Chick is talking how after the war the [=USA=] and Japan will became allies and friends, not even he believes that joke...joke...
* UnfortunateImplications: Plenty of people have pointed out how this is yet another case of a story about a minority being told through the eyes of a white person.
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* HilariousInHindsight: When Chick is talking how after the war the [=USA=] and Japan will became allies and friends, not even he believes that joke...

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