Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Pointless

To have taken such a fascinating story and turned it into such a piece of blancmange is sheer artistic incompetence. Windtalkers is a prime example of a director with no knowledge of - or indeed interest in - the realities of combat. At no point in the film is there even a suggestion that Wu was concerned about accuracy. The characters are cliched, the sets are straight out of the 1950s, the action is stilted and unconvincing. Rather than a *rating of 1-5, there should be a set of minus ratings for this film. Windtalkers is embarrasingly bad.