Flyboys
- Director:
- Tony Bill (tv's 'Monk', 'Felicity')
- Writer:
- Phil SearsBlake T. EvansDavid S. Ward
- Cast:
- James FrancoJean RenoPhilip WinchesterMartin HendersonAbdul SalisJennifer DeckerTyler LabineDavid Ellison
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressLovingly and knowledgeably made by director Tony Bill, who got his pilot's license as a teenager, pic nonetheless has a lightweight, airbrushed feel; despite the brutal dogfights and inevitable deaths, there's little gravity or resonance...
USA Today
pressFlyboys doesn't succeed as a wartime adventure story or as a period romance. Even the special effects, set in a historical context, are too ho-hum to save this over-long and tedious film...
Premiere Magazine
pressPart of what makes these kind of war movies such cinematic comfort food (aside from the moral certainty they strive to convey) is their familiarity. But I wonder if said familiarity is what compels contemporary filmmakers to overstuff the material -- Flyboys is a good two hours and 20 minutes...
Hollywood Reporter
pressA decidedly old-fashioned war film that reaches for epic sweep but is often bogged down in cliched drama and two-dimensional characters
Christchurch Press
pressNot so much a historical lesson as a warning to the makers of the proposed Charles Upham movie of how not to make a war movie. As for those wanting to commemorate Anzac Day, they would be better off renting Peter Weir's excellent Gallipoli...
Variety
pressLovingly and knowledgeably made by director Tony Bill, who got his pilot's license as a teenager, pic nonetheless has a lightweight, airbrushed feel; despite the brutal dogfights and inevitable deaths, there's little gravity or resonance...
USA Today
pressFlyboys doesn't succeed as a wartime adventure story or as a period romance. Even the special effects, set in a historical context, are too ho-hum to save this over-long and tedious film...
Premiere Magazine
pressPart of what makes these kind of war movies such cinematic comfort food (aside from the moral certainty they strive to convey) is their familiarity. But I wonder if said familiarity is what compels contemporary filmmakers to overstuff the material -- Flyboys is a good two hours and 20 minutes...
Hollywood Reporter
pressA decidedly old-fashioned war film that reaches for epic sweep but is often bogged down in cliched drama and two-dimensional characters
Christchurch Press
pressNot so much a historical lesson as a warning to the makers of the proposed Charles Upham movie of how not to make a war movie. As for those wanting to commemorate Anzac Day, they would be better off renting Peter Weir's excellent Gallipoli...
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