When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Waste of time
Surprisingly incoherent and boring
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Can't understand why this attempt at a serious subject received any attention at all. It was just silly! If you really want to get some idea what it was like in WWII in B-17's don't waste your time on this clichéd CGI cartoon. Watch "Twelve O'clock High", then watch "Fortress" if you must, then write your review. The CGI was good for a video game, distracting for a movie. The acting was typical for today, OK but over acted mostly. B-17's don't do loops. Other reviews have covered all of the goofs but I can't let this one go by, the enemy did not put up flack while their fighters were attacking! This crew had more unbelievable situations then 100 crews had on all their missions, and still survived. I had to watch two episodes of Charley's Angles just to come back to reality.
I joined the site just so I could rate this movie.You can tell when a movie is made with people that care about the materiel being presented, and this movie screams of it.The story and the actors are the focus, not how much crapola you can cram into a movie to wow the audience.CGI is a little rough in spots, but it just emphasizes the story and actors even more.Oh one complaint though, in the cockpit, the second rivet on the left hand spanner is .0000987 off center from the rest, and just about ruined the movie for me, therefore I docked it a point...
I seldom rate so low as this. Why? I actually did not even watch the full movie as I got so fed up with the totally unbelievably bad CGI used in this movie. The first 5 minutes was already enough to decide that this was going to be bad. The airplanes look so clean, so crisp, the motion so unrealistic, the attacks unrealistic, the acting poor (it's not the actors but what they are made to depict). I would compare this movie to that thing with the name, I think, Red Tails as recently also launched. It seems that these type of movies that would be great if CGI was used in a realistic way need to be ruined by unrealistic close combat and movements of airplanes and such. Hollywood, grow up, use CGI the way it's supposed to work, to enhance realism, not to try to make it more spectacular by introducing unrealism. Honor to the man and women that made the raids possible, that suffered in this war. Shame on those that ruined what could have been a good story, good movie. My advise, avoid like the plague!
This is the first review I've written but with 507 war films in my collection I think I can now write with some circumspection and objectivity. My father trained as a rear gunner for Lancasters but luckily war ended before he could start flying ops so the film takes me back to the stories he told me of the human remains of rear gun turrets being hosed out using high pressure hoses!I cannot believe that this film has such a low rating so what a pleasant surprise. The crisp opening graphics are redolent of the best computer games but don't take anything away from the realism. I found the film work stunning with movie shots from aft to fore on the aircraft which I have never seen in any other movie. The storyline was very solid and you feel total empathy for the crews and their losses. There is a sort of angst which starts right off in the movie which you feel to the very end. The only criticism I had was that all the equipment looked so stunningly new with no wear or tear.For once I thought computerised graphics were used to good effect and the acting was good.A Stirling effort for a low budget film and definitely one of my favourite flying films .... and I have them all.