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Red Tails

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The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

Status: Released

Released Date: 2012-01-19

Runtime: 125 mins

Director: Anthony Hemingway

Spoken language: English, Deutsch, Italiano

Genres: Drama, Action, Adventure, History, War

Original title: Red Tails

Production Companies: Lucasfilm Ltd., Partnership Pictures

Production Countries: United States of America, Czech Republic

Cast

Colonel William Mortamus

Bryan Cranston

Joe 'Lightning' Little

David Oyelowo

Major Emanuelle Stance

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Sofia

Daniela Ruah

Col. A.J. Bullard

Terrence Howard

Antwan 'Coffee' Coleman

Andre Royo

Chester

Robert Kazinsky

Colonel Jack Tomlinson

Lee Tergesen

Lt. David Long

Matthew Leitch

Maurice Wilson

Michael B. Jordan

Sticks

Method Man

Lieutenant General Luntz

Gerald McRaney

Brigadier General Hauser

Matthew Marsh

Commanding General Westlake

Barnaby Kay

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

Yeah, I came into this long after seeing HBO's Tuskegee Airmen, which kind of stared everyone on earth and was brilliantly acted and had a great and compelling plot. So this is kind of a bias review. Compared to the HBO original movie, Red Tails has better special effects but that's about all. The story is worse, the plot is worse, the acting is worse. The history is worse, and I like to give movies a wide breath for artistic liberty. It tells a love story instead of a Tuskegee Airmen story. It replaces drama with fx. Walk away and dig up the HBO movie from the 90s.

2023-01-12

Dark Jedi

I have to say that I was a wee bit disappointed in this movie. I felt it was surprisingly mediocre and very “Hollywood”. The good parts are the flight scenes and the special effects. They are enjoyable to watch and reasonably well done. However, that is pretty much what makes up this movie in terms of enjoyment. I would say that a lot of it is not very realistic. The German anti-aircraft guns seems to be next to useless most of the time for instance. Also, there is the scene where a single P51, armed with nothing but machine guns, takes out an armed German warship in two quick runs. That felt quite unrealistic. A lot of the film also felt too much like some Hollywood drama. Some of the pilots behave like morons and in real life they would have been shot down rather quickly. The alcohol problems and the romance seems to have been thrown in just to appeal to the American soap-opera viewers. The entire movie is very shallow and if it was not for the budget and special effects it could very well have been a TV-movie. Most of this movie I was yawning in my seat and waking up only when the flight action started so that I could watch the special effects.

2014-04-13

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