Flyboys (2006)
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
Flyboys (2006)
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Released Year: 2006
Runtime: 138 minutes
Directors: Tony Bill
Casts: James Franco, Martin Henderson, David Ellison, Tyler Labine, Jean Reno, Mac McDonald, Lex Shrapnel, Tim Pigott-Smith, Todd Boyce, Philip Winchester, Abdul Salis, Karen Ford, Scott Hazell, Ruth Bradley, Gail Downey, Augustin Legrand, Keith McErlean, Jennifer Decker
IMDB: Flyboys (2006)
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The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
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Reviews
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L.A. Weekly -
A highly enjoyable programmer about those brave young men and their rickety flying machines.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer -
As imaginatively as some of them are staged, the action scenes are never authentically gripping. This seems to be the hidden handicap of our new digital filmmaking era in which all big action sequences are generated in the computer and look vaguely like cartoons.
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The Hollywood Reporter -
A decidedly old-fashioned war film that reaches for epic sweep but is often bogged down in cliched drama and two-dimensional characters.
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Variety -
Lovingly and knowledgeably made by director Tony Bill, who got his pilot's license as a teenager, pic nonetheless has a lightweight, airbrushed feel; despite the brutal dogfights and inevitable deaths, there's little gravity or resonance.
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Village Voice -
Here is the War to End All Wars seen from on high--as it was way back when, in "Wings" or the Howard Hughes "Hell's Angels"--a world apart from the grim, futile slaughterhouses of Verdun and the Marne. Among these combatants, you won't find much "All Quiet on the Western Front"–style despair, and the paths of glory are unsullied by doubt or disillusionment.
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The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.