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6.6/10 • 628

2012-01-192h 5m

DramaActionAdventureHistoryWar

High-Octane Action and Daring Dogfights!

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

Directors
Anthony Hemingway
Editors
Michael O'Halloran

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  1. Bryan Cranston

    Bryan Cranston

    Colonel William Mortamus

  2. David Oyelowo

    David Oyelowo

    Joe 'Lightning' Little

  3. Cuba Gooding Jr.

    Cuba Gooding Jr.

    Major Emanuelle Stance

  4. Daniela Ruah

    Daniela Ruah

    Sofia

  5. Terrence Howard

    Terrence Howard

    Col. A.J. Bullard

  6. Andre Royo

    Andre Royo

    Antwan 'Coffee' Coleman

  7. Robert Kazinsky

    Robert Kazinsky

    Chester

  8. Lee Tergesen

    Lee Tergesen

    Colonel Jack Tomlinson

  9. Matthew Leitch

    Matthew Leitch

    Lt. David Long

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Per Gunnar Jonsson Avatar

Per Gunnar Jonsson

Apr 13, 2014

5/10

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.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$58,000,000.00
Revenue
$50,365,377.00
Keywords
world war iifighter pilotu.s. air forcefighter airplanetuskegee airmen1940safrican american history