Red Tails - A Review

1.5 Stars - Laughably bad.

A war film should not make you route for the Nazis... bad film! bad!

Red Tails is based on the true story of a group of black pilots in world war 2, it can be summed up like this, White people are racist and Black people can do stuff too. It is just insulting that film makers think we need to learn this message.

The characters are racial stereotypes and are all pretty much impossible to like, not really through any fault of the actors, who are at least competent, and there are good actors in it, for example Andre Royo and Bryan Cranston, the fault is the writing, it takes away any semblance of dignity this story should have.

The film has a large number of terrible moments that made me laugh out loud, for example the first line of dialogue in this film is "Germans! let's get them!"

And to top it all off the air battles, the main set pieces of the film are boring, there is no excuse for that.

It seems fitting that a film this bad would be the film that seems to be making George Lucas retire, the final film of the man who ruined his own franchise has now ruined the respect deserved to people who are heroes in the second world war.

I'm getting out of this early, may God have mercy on the rest of the cast

In short, do not go see this, it sucks.