Product: Flyboys [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 1.0
Thank God for fast forward
I asked the clerk at the video store how they determine the number of videos to buy for rentals. She told me it is based on the box office record of the film. She had 2 Flyboys. One would have been plenty.The story was sappy. The acting just so so. The aerial sequences were much like a video game. Try "Flight Simulator". WWI biplanes hanging on their props??? Climbing 90 degrees?? Landing a biplane in shell cratered "no man's land" in the heat of battle to save a buddy who has his hand (not his arm, his legs, his torso, but just his hand) trapped under the wing of his crashed plane?? That's realism??There wasn't much believable about this film. A third of the way through the movie I fast forwarded through all scenes except the dogfights. I was hoping for something on the order of "The Blue Max". "Flyboys" stalled on climb out, went into a flat spin, and augured deep into the depths of movie flops!