Flyboys (2006) 6/10

Starring : James Franco, Martin Henderson, David Ellison, Jennifer Decker, Jean Reno
Director : Tony Bill
Running Time : 139 mins

During World War I, a group of American soldiers are sent to France in order to fight as pilots against the Germans. Initially excited by the prospect of battling the enemy, the young pilots soon realise just how lucky they will have to be to make it through the next two years...

The flight scenes of this war movie are pretty impressive, but the characters really didn’t do anything to make this movie gripping, especially considering I like Tyler Labine who is not his usual whacky self her whatsoever. Reno is wasted in this, and Franco is so wooden it’s scary. If you like war films, this might whet your appetite in part, especially the flight scenes, but as a complete movie this is on the whole too boring and gives us little in terms of historical learning or character development, in spite of the fact that the characters are meant to change drastically throughout the course of the film.

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