Product: Von Richthofen & Brown (2007)
Rating: 4.0
Nice little piece of celluloid
Ok. Let's take aside the hystorical innacuracies. I know that this is hard, simply because the movie is title "Von Richthofen and Brown"!! If the producers had tried to do something not using real names (like "The Blue Max"), maybe they could have got away with it.But, since they went for the Red Baron (probably figuring it would help in the box office), the innacuracies are mind boggling. Just to mention two of them: Richthofen, Boelcke, Voss, Goering, Wolff, Lothar and Udet, all in the same squadron at the same time (if they had added Immelmmann, already dead at the time, it would have been marvellous!). Other: the way Voss died. They didn't bother to show the way it happened, that was one of the most famous air battles in history, fighting for ten minutes alone against seven Allied machines.Now, to the movie itself. It has clearly a "B-Movie" feel. Of course. It's Corman directing. He can not escape it. It's stronger than him. The screenplay has its flaws. Dialogues are restrained, cliched. But, given the relative short duration of the film, they tried to put a lot of information in it. Photography is anohter matter. It's simply gorgeous. (there is one moment though, in the last battle, when you can see clearly the 1971 cars below in the road. I laughed a lot!).Go for this movie as light entertainment. At least, you get the clear feel that , for the aereal scenes and battle scenes, the producers and director went to great efforts to make it right.