Product: Flyboys [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 3.0
Entertaining but disappointing
I'm sorry to say that I don't share the enthusiasm of the previous reviewers for this film. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad film, it just wasn't that great either. I agree that the fight scenes were very well done and exciting to watch, but other than that, I was very disappointed. I found the acting to be mediocre and the tone of the film was somewhat cheesy, I thought. I was expecting a serious war film in the category of 'Saving Private Ryan', but what I witnessed was more similar to Jerry Bruckheimer's 'Pearl Harbor.' It is more of a "feel-good" war movie, than a realistic one. Don't get me wrong, the film had it's moments, but it just wasn't what I expected. So if you just want to be entertained for a couple hours, I could think of plenty of worse movies, but if you're expecting an epic war film, 'Flyboys' is not it.