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Genre : Action, Adventure, Drama Release Date : January 20, 2012 MPAA Rating : PG-13 Duration : 120 minute(s) Production Budget : -Studio : The 20th Century Fox Official Site : http://www.redtails2012.com/ Reviews Rate :
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while the CGI aerial warfare is thrilling, all the pilot chatter is annoying
Review rate : D
by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]
throughout the film, however, all opposition to the universally sympathetic protagonists falls like so many bowling pin
by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]
these sequences are all swoop, boom and rat-tat-tat - until some character opens his mouth to utter a line so stilted that it could have drawn giggles in 1946
by Mark Jenkins [Washington Post ]
there are no subtle moments in this production
by Mary F. Pols [TIME Magazine ]
the story trips up by skimming the surface of history
Review rate : D+
by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
the story has been stripped of historical context-don't black teenagers and everyone else deserve hard facts?-and internal logic
by Joe Morgenstern [Wall Street Journal ]
the movie's most exciting moments are its heavily computer-generated aerial battle sequences
Review rate : C
by Stephen Holden [New York Times ]
the movie takes all these hoary cliches and presents them without any trace of irony or self-awareness
Review rate : C+
by Randy Cordova [Arizona Republic ]
the movie is packed with non-gems such as these, which accompany scenes of such absolutely rote dramatic content
Review rate : D
by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]
the dogfighting sequences, full of crisscrossing, bullets-blazing action, are rendered with digital precision - they're exhilarating
Review rate : D+
by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer ]
squanders a great subject, reducing the real-life struggles and fierce heroics of the Tuskegee Airmen to rickety cliche
Review rate : D
by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune ]
some of the dialogue is awkward, especially early on
by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]
on the ground, it's a far shakier experience: dutiful and prosaic, with thinly scripted episodes that don't add up to a satisfying story
Review rate : B-
by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]
it's old-fashioned entertainment, to be sure, and sometimes melodramatic to the film's detriment
Review rate : D+
by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]
it's better than the Star Wars prequels
by Keith Uhlich [Time Out New York ]
for all their visual polish, such maneuvers lack the thrill of practical stuntwork
by Peter Debruge [Variety ]
by Mark Jenkins [Washington Post ]
by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]
by Keith Uhlich [Time Out New York ]
