Flyboys
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Movie Reviews of Flyboys
Movie Review: Flyboys - A Movie Review
Summary: 4 Stars
Movie Review
Flyboys
Click...Click...his guns were jammed. His enemy was closing in on him. He gazed over his right shoulder. Their was his enemy right beside him. Gazing at his victim before he blew him to pieces. Then suddenly he grabbed his pilot's pistol and bam....he shot the enemy sending him in a straight plummet to earth. Kaboom.
The movie Flyboys really caught my attention with all the flashy highflying action. To tell you the truth...it was just as cool as the commercials said it would be.
I really enjoy how they incorporated all of the action and flying into a real story, not just flair and special effects like Star Wars I, The Phantom Menace. You really got to see the life of a soldier and his comrades in World War I.
I think that this film didn't do a good job of introducing the character's names. Even though this movie did have each character developing his own likes or dislikes, and even characteristics. You could not put a name to a face. At the end of the movie you still didn't feel like you related to any of the characters like a good movie should.
Flyboys did do a nice job of having a great ending. So it made you forget about all of the faults in the movie. That is why I am struggling to give negative feedback (If you do want to find things you do not like in the movie just watch up until the last 15 minutes and then cut the television off).
Any great war movie has to have a hero. The main pilot (I forgot his name) during the war, had a relationship with one of the French girls. In the war, the Germans
come to her house. He flies all night to get to her and then he finds her and saves her. The movie did this very well. What more can you ask for in a movie but violence, flight, war movie, storyline, special affects, and romance for all you grownups out their. I loved this movie.
I would most certainly recommend this movie to any person that is willing to pay a few dollars to see one of the best movies of the year.
Movie Review: Exciting aerial sequences
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a lavish, big-budget look at the LaFayette Escadrille - the American fighter pilots who volunteered for France before their country entered World War One. The locales, the sets, the costumes, the equipment, and, of course, the airplanes - what a pageant! There is an engaging mix of characters: the down-on-his-luck cowboy, the expatriate black prizefighter, the spoiled Harvard drop-out, the Bible-thumper, the wet-behind-the-ears youngster, the suspected spy, the cynical veteran ace, the French farmgirl, and the cruel and unscrupulous Black Falcon. The two young romantic leads are attractive enough, but let's face it - the real reason for seeing this movie is provided by the dogfights. And director Tony Bill does not disappoint: the sequences of aerial combat are as thrilling as any military action ever recreated on film. They are easy to follow because all the planes have very visible personal insigniae clearly identifying who's who. The only negative I have to say is that the musical soundtrack sounds like a rip-off of the Mel Gibson film The Patriot.Movie Review: EXCITING & ENTERTAINING ! FORGET THE CRITICS !
Summary: 4 Stars
While this film may not win an academy award the aerial fighting sequences make it well worth the money ---plus the acting from relatively unknown actors was not bad at all----Those people who tout all the films historical errors tis IS a fictionalized account of Lafayette Escadrille how many of the critics especially some of the women critics have even heard of this name before? --Name one WW1 aviation film that has gotten it all correct you can't --"The Blue Max one of my favorites had pilots pulling on some sort of handle to fire their machine guns (all wrong) and had lozenge camouflage on the Fokker Triplanes which was also wrong --there is plenty wrong but I still loved the Blue Max as I love this film too---Maybe director Peter Jackson (King KONG) (who is rumoured considering) remaking the BLUE MAX WILL GET ALL THE SMALL DETAILS RIGHT AND ALSO make a kickass film that even the critics will have to love! Go see FLYBOYS You will be entertained!Movie Review: cool but somewhat inacurate
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is very good but has some slight falseness. First a zepplin could fly much higher than a byplane and travelled in groups generally. I was a little pissed about how they painted the Dr.I triplanes. Red barron had a blood red triplane and all the rest were uasally green and red. I have seen color pictures of a black Dr.I but it was taken at least after WWII and did not have a falcon painted on the side. Of course there were different names for most of the pilots but that is in every war movie made for entertainment like the new Pearl Harbor(Where do you get Danny and Rafe from Taylor and Welsh). The thing that lost it's hand would not have flown again after being convicted of crime. I was glad to see a case of battle fatigue because Ive never seen that in a war movie rated PG-13. So if you are going to see an accurate war film look somewhere else like The Blue Max but if you want to be entertained see it.Movie Review: The critics don't get it
Summary: 4 Stars
For some reason, critics generally don't get this type of movie. Maybe they're too young. Maybe they have no affection for (or perhaps knowledge of) the genre war movies of the 40s. They want these movies to be "meaningful". They want them to "resonate".
But movies like this are just fun, like the old Errol Flynn/Clark Gable/John Wayne movies. They are Saturday afternoon popcorn movies, and there aren't nearly enough of them. I didn't care how "accurate" the movie was. I had fun. I loved it. And the romance (no sex) occupied only a small part of it, as it should (unlike Pearl Harbor, which sank under the weight of it).
4 stars out of 5 due to its being somewhat overlong. But it definitely should be seen at least once on the big screen.
Old-fashioned, cliche-ridden, and predictable. But loads of fun. Highly recommended.