Product: Flyboys [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 2.0
movie crashed and burned
This film claims that it is based on historical fact, the only historical fact that it can claim is that world war 1 did indeed take place, and that there was a Lafayette escadrille. Hollywood does not understand guys, real warriors. Instead it takes a bite out of the moody warrior, the liar, preacher ect, but fails to show the spirit, the fear, and reality of young men going into battle. The poor attempts to show young pilots preparing to go to war, shows very little of flying, The gunge ho spirit these young men had, just a blase attempt to get 20 minutes of film shot, although there are several amusing spots, your left feeling lost, after 20 minutes you are waiting for something, anything to happen. Add to this poorly written love story that takes up a third of the movie. If you are able to watch the entire film you are left with the image that the pilots of ww1 flew perhaps once a week, spent the rest of the time feeling sorry for themselves, chasing after a long lost Love, our, drinking themselves to death. Poor script, poor computer graphics, horrible attention to historical fact make one wish that it had crashed and burned on the editors table.