Flyboys (2006)

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	Year of first release: 2006
	Director: Tony Bill
	Actors: James Franco (Spiderman 1-3), Jean Reno (Godzilla), Jennifer Decker
	Country: USA
	Genre: War, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 26.06.2015, DVD, 11" computer screen
Synopsis: Blaine Rawlings (Franco) leaves the USA to enlist in an Escadrille of planes fighting over France at war. There he will meet other brave pilot-to-be.
Review: Movies about the First World War are much rarer that the ones about the Second WW, especially in the Action genre because it was more a war of men and not weapons, with the exception of Airplanes which were just invented, have been immediately used for combat, and are the topic of this movie together with their pilots. I did not expect too much of Flyboys (I bought it for cheap in DVD to watch it some time in a train, as I did), but it turned out to be quite good, although not very realistic (landing a plane close to the trenches to go on foot help a crashed pilot doesn't make sense). It IS a kind of Pearl Harbor of WWI but without Michael Bay in command, i.e. no slow motion of planes flying in front of a sun that sets three times a day, but instead some virtuose and well-executed aerial scenes that occur at regular intervals between more dramatic scenes of friendship and love. One of the things I liked was that French people speak French in this movie and nothing else, like they did at the time (some could say they still do...) except for the most educated ones like Captain Thenault played by Jean Reno. James Franco and the other actors are good.
Rating: 7 /10