Product: Flyboys [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 4.0
The story is by no means original - but that doesn't make it bad!!
If ever there was a war movie designed for a James Dean style actor - this is it! Although "inspired" by a true story, there is nothing original in this movie's story line and it's outcome is rather predictable (but then we all know how WWI ended), but even those two criticisms can take nothing away from the action portrayed in this movie. I missed seeing it at the cinemas and having now watched it on DVD, I really wish I had made the effort to have viewed it on the big screen. The scene of French Bi-planes attacking a Zeppelin are awesome, as are all the dog fight scenes of which there are plenty. There were no real disappointments for me in this movie (other than my own failing to see it on the big screen), it is a great watch, one you walk away from thinking - "man that was pretty good, I'd watch it again!!!"