Some of the worst acting I have seen

You beat me to it. The bomber crews had some of the worst lines in the movie. Especially at the beginning. "Aww man...there goes our fighter cover." "Hold on, we are almost there. *explosion* "Gaaaaah!"

In scenes where you should have been tense, scared, angry, upset, these guys just managed to sound like cyborgs.

No, it's not because of the dubbing.

Nice to learn that fighter cockpits are as quiet as Lexus cabins, though. Or that you can hear an enemy pilot as he bails out past your canopy.

What I had in mind was boxing the compass.

haha,....umm,..NO.

You should go to a different site if you think a film should be critiqued based off of the original storyline and not the actual elements of filmmaking.

We are talking about the quality of this film, which is horrible in Acting and Writing,....2 of the most important parts of a film.

I think this film was a disgrace to the real fighter pilots and should have been done with more care and thought. It made them look silly, in my opinion.

This was no tribute to the brave fighter pilots,...it was a pathetic attempt to appeal to audiences based on the original story in hopes to make some cash.



You're not a writer Fink, you're a goddamn write off

Then you should watch "The Tuskeegee Airmen" movie from 1995. It's not great but it's better than this garbage and has a better cast (Cuba Gooding is in it as well.)

Waldimore, thank you for that analysis. You are of course, correct. But it doesn't have to be that way. If you haven't already seen it, I highly recommend seeing the HBO movie, The Tuskegee Airmen. It is far superior to this turkey and goes a lot further to doing these men justice.

One usually finds that a movie addressing a particular subject usually does a better job than earlier efforts . Many of us were hoping this would be such a case. Unfortunately, in this case we were wrong.

TNSTAAFL

That was my impression as well. The guys in those days may have shucked and jived a bit, but they weren't that successful just because they were black. The movie depicts a group of alcoholics, idiots and basically thugs in uniform. No way those guys even start a plane, much less fly successful missions as the real Redtails did.

The movie tried to cover a too long a time period. There was absolutely no character development and I felt nothing when Lightning didn't make it back. He was constantly rewarded in the film for not following the orders of his flight leader, who was always flying drunk. They tried to do too much and left holes everywhere. They wasted time on what was happening in the States instead of focusing on the lives and relationships of the pilots. You know basically nothing about them except Easy's dad was a judge. Terrible acting, Gooding should be ashamed as should Howard, both capable actors, and Howard normally has a gravitas about him just because his eyes seem to be on the verge of crying all the time.

It's hard to get the younger generation to learn the ways of the older ones, but in film it's necessary to do so. These guys weren't actors, they are all basically one trick ponies all using basically the same shtick. It should have been called "Boyz N the Planez".

Golly, racist much? White film makers "don't care enough to understand black people as human beings?". I am pretty sure that is the most racist thing I've heard in a while. Blacks complain that whites are bigoted and racist, but why is it ok for blacks to be bigoted toward whites?

If we want to rid the world of bigotry and hatred, we can only do it if EVERYONE stops it, not just some of us...

That's exactly what I was going to post. The screenplay is just awful. I don't fault the actors, they had nothing to work with but cliches and stereotypes.