Red Tails

[AtomicKaiser]

A Review of Red Tails

 

The movie was overall pretty cool, the plane action was nice and the sounds were right, if you have ever been next to a P-51 as it's starting up you know the deep engine and vibrations it makes. But aside from that, the movie was just pure propaganda, mixed in with sub par acting. There must be like 3 actors in the entire movie anybody has ever seen, and one of them I cant name a movie he's from. The Tuskegee airmen go on to destroy airfields with no problem from AA guns and take down ships whenever they feel like it. The German pilots(and AA gunners) seem to be retarted or something because they utterly fail to take down these under trained, under armed and under supplied Tuskegee airmen. Another part that was junk was the dogfight with the Me-262s. Even green pilots in the 262s were beating Allied aces in their conventional aircraft, yet some Tuskegee airmen just pluck them out of the sky with only one casualty of the crazy pilot "Lightning" who goes fourth to fly straight at a guy and gets 40 50. bullets to the chest before he dies. All in all I want to uphold the "Inspired by true events" so basically nothing in this movie could have been true, it just was based of the idea of black WW2 pilots.

[Crasher]

Most movies are terrible these days, that's why I never go. I liked we bought a zoo though.

[docwarren]

The 1995 movie The Tuskegee Airmen Was a much better film, in my opinion. Ironically, it also had Cuba Gooding Jr. in it's cast and I thought it was one of his best performances then. As far as the 262 encounters, the Red Tails were the first to see action against them and the first to score a kill (3 if I remember correctly). The boat sinking did happen, but not as dramatic as portrayed in the movies. 850-some medals won by the 332nd.

 

Keep in mind.... movies are for entertainment. Anything that says BASED on true events most likely has been altered for entertainment value.

 

Regardless......... the story is about a courageous group who fought for this country. They did it even though their race was looked at as 2nd class citizens.

 

Much respect for these gentleman.