I think War Movies would merit their own section, but until Jake makes one, this will have to do.

Sgt. Joe Enders: Nicolas Cage
Pvt. Ben Yahzee: Adam Beach
Pvt. Charlie Whitehorse: Roger Willie
Sgt. "Ox" Henderson: Christian Slater
Sgt. Eric "Gunny" Hjelmstad: Peter Stormare
Cprl. Charles "Chick" Rogers: Noah Emmerich
Pappas: Mark Ruffalo

Written by John Rice and Joe Batteer.
Directed by John Woo

I saw it tonight. It was okay. Not the most "signature" John Woo movie I ever saw, it didn’t seem like we got to know Yahzee and White Horse enough as characters.
--- was glad, however, that the movie didn’t shy away or cheat with the point that the codetalkers’ bodyguards were ordered to take them out if they were in danger of capture.
---I also found Peter Stormare’s attempt to mask his European accent to be utterly ridiculous. I like him as an actor, but I couldn’t get his abusive husband from Chocolat or Vass from Bad Company out of my head. Just what type of accent was he trying to emulate? Southern?
---Roger Ebert summed up the best points in his review at http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-wind14f.html :

The filmmakers have buried it beneath battlefield cliches, while centering the story on a white character played by Nicolas Cage. I was reminded of "Glory," the story of heroic African-American troops in the Civil War, which was seen through the eyes of their white commanding officer. Why does Hollywood find it impossible to trust minority groups with their own stories?

Although Americans take heavy casualties (there is a point at which we assume everyone in the movie will be killed), the death ratio is about 30 to 1 against the Japanese. Since they are defending dug-in positions and the Americans are often exposed, this seems unlikely.

The Navajos are able to use their code in order to radio information, call in strikes and allow secret communication. In the real war, I imagine, this skill was most useful in long-range strategic radio communication. "Windtalkers" devotes minimal time to the code talkers, however, and when they do talk, it's to phone in coordinates for an air strike against big Japanese guns. Since these guns cannot be moved before airplanes arrive, a call in English would have had about the same effect. That Woo shows the Windtalkers in the heat of battle is explained, I think, because he wants to show everything in the heat of battle. The wisdom of assigning two precious code talkers to a small group of front-line soldiers in a deadly hand-to-hand fight situation seems questionable, considering there are only 400 Navajos in the Pacific theater.

There is a way to make a good movie like "Windtalkers," and that's to go the low-budget indie route, focus[ing] on the Navajo characters, their personalities and issues. The moment you decide to make "Windtalkers" a big-budget action movie with a major star and lots of explosions, you give up any possibility that it can succeed on a human scale. The Navajo code talkers have waited a long time to have their story told. Too bad it appears here merely as a gimmick in an action picture.

Peter Stormare also played the cosmonaut in "Armageddon."
For me, John Woo's signature American film will always be "Face/Off."

Stormare was also the Eye Doctor in "Minority Report," and a Nihilist in "Big Lebowski." In this film, he was referred to as "The Viking," so I'm guessing he wasn't trying to hide any accent as much as put one on, likely a Norse immigrant. Either way, it didn't bother me.