Red Tails (2012) 6/10

Starring : Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Tristan Wilds, Ne-Yo, Elijah Kelly, Andre Royo, Cliff Smith, Marcus T Paulk, Cuba Gooding Jr, Terrence Howard
Director : Anthony Hemingway
Running Time : 125 mins

During World War II a team of black pilots, presumed by white people to be incapable of flying fighter planes, take it upon themselves to prove that they can be just as good, if not better, at battling against the Axis powers who want nothing more than to take away Western freedom.

Although slow paced and featuring some very underutilized actors, this is an okay movie that tries to deal with the racism that existed in during the Second World War, a time when black people were considered less than second class citizens. In spite of this being a nice tale that proves that black were as good, if not better, than whites at flying aircraft and proved that they weren’t mentally inferior or the cowards that the American army thought they were, it still doesn’t stop the racist comments that people made in the movie – even those people that weren’t being intentionally racist – and it clearly showed that there was still a long way to go before everyone could accept black people as equals.

You’ll like this if you liked : Flyboys