Product: Flyboys [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 5.0
Lots of fun and excitement, not great, but good and a keeper
I'll probably buy this when it comes to DVD. Excellent feeling of the times.. sets are terrific as are most of the costumes, etc. Flight scenes are not historically accurate, but lots of fun and really exciting.. However, things like multiple red German DR1 planes, plane markings that didn't exist for the Escadrille N124 Lafayette, impossible plane maneuvers, are disappointing... but only for WWI aviation fans. Acting was great, especially the French girl, and the French Captain Thenault (only member using his real name). Pilots were actually required to join the French Foreign Legion first, but it's another minor point for the story (stories). Several stories going on and I enjoyed them all. Reviewers fault he film for using many military clichés, but WWI and that period was a war of clichés and I feel it only reinforces the naveté of the times. The music is probably the only part that is too dramatic, too often, sort of like Star Wars, but it isn't that objectionable till close to the end and for most scenes it adds the right feeling. Even my wife enjoyed this movie and got caught up in it!