Product: Flyboys [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 4.0
If only these guys had a decent parachute?
This is the story in WW1 of Americans that became pilots in a French unit before the USA entered the war. It shows how they came for many reasons adventure, to escape, idealism etc. How accurate is it, I suspect a fair bit although I did not like the way the Germans are shown as evil in this film. Something I don't think warranted by their behaviour in WW1.The acting is below average. When they showed the daily lives of the people and the pilots in no scenes could I say they grabbed me. Often I found them boring even scenes that were suppose to be gripping. Partly I suspect because the lives of the people were not interesting, real life often is not gripping and partly because I did not think much of their acting.However it is different with the action scenes. They were terrific. Imagine being is such a plane, which in today's terms is junk without a parachute. Dangerous to just fly and these guys were fighting one another up there. If anything goes wrong with the plane you are dead. They must have been extremely brave men. You could feel what it must have been like.The filming is good.It is worth a look if you like air force movies.