Product: Flyboys [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 3.0
Pretty, but corny.
For the first fifteen or twenty minutes or so, I thought this was going to be a serious, epic movie about American pilots in WWI. But as the film wore on, and wore out, I realized that I had been duped by advertising and a certain radio commentator's review into watching a corny, cartoonish, and predictable "Star Wars" set during WWI in France. Shallow characters and impossible arial combat scenes combined to make me give up on this mess about half-way through, but I watched it through to the end anyway.Once you've seen this movie, do yourself a favor and watch The Blue Max, or watch the silent classic Wings from 1927, the first movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.