Product: Flyboys [Blu-ray] (2006)
Rating: 5.0
Flyboys
First, I am a pilot and I love airplanes, second I am a veteran and enjoy serious and accurate war chronicles. This movie did not disappoint. After seeing the trailer commercials for this movie, it definitely was on my "must have" list for home DVD's. Not only am I satisfied that I purchased it for my home collection, I have also gifted it to a friend and a relative. This movie has a cast of fairly unknown actors and does a fine job of recreating what squadron life must have been for Americans and non French citizens in WWI in the Lafayette Esquadrille. The battle scenes are what most people are interested in that buy a movie of this type for and this movie does deliver with thrilling battle sequences. Although there is a love interest with innocent romance in this film, it never gets in the way of the action. The battle scene with the French Neuports battling the German Dirigible, escorted by German DRI fighters is riveting. One of the veteran German fighter pilots is a real villain, but he finally gets what's coming to him in the end.