Flyboys Reviews

Solid special effects and good acting by Franco make this film good enough to be worth multiple watches. A story about WWI flying aces with todays special effects was long past its due.

This is a great movie about flying aces during WW1. A small group of Americans go to France to join the flying corps and battle the German flying aces, alittle cliched in places, alittle smoochy here and there and rather predictable to be honest but this is good boys own Biggles type stuff based on fact.

The effects are great and do the job, the dogfights are really excellent and quite tense whilst the acting is ok, not great but worthy enough. The story sucks you in with its brash tale of young aces and romance and its not hard to get behind the heroes and cheer as they bring down the bosh haha. Overall its not really graphic with the bloodshed and not extreme in any way but it does the job of showing how the pilots fought and what they went through, with alittle Hollywood sparkle of course ;)

Think 'Memphis Belle' with better effects and abit more realism, good fun with a caring heart to the facts. Scarfs on and chocks away chaps.

It really wanted to be good, but it was just too cheesy. The dialogue, acting and plot cliches were just too annoying for me to enjoy the movie as a whole, despite the fact that some of the dogfight scenes were pretty cool.

What a wonderful film! Right from start to finish I enjoyed every bit of it!

Flyboys is a movie I really wanted to like, but it was too slow and awfully predictable to be enjoyed. The great action and special effects couldn't mask the cheesiness of the plot.

The dogfights in the air were entertaining, but too many of the fights looked the same. It was like 2 hours of the same fight over and over again... it got a little redundant.

It wasn't a horrible film, but it was too predictable and was a little too heroicly campy to be totally enjoyable.

Once again, perfect proof that an awesome movie trailer can be made from even the crappiest of movies...The dogfight scenes were decent, but overall, the movie just went way too slow.

really good flick. had some over the top scenes and some things happen outside of reality, but the acting was great, the action was good when it was believable, and the story was very good.

This movie is truly five-star material.
Great actors, great flying scenes, and a historic story that will keep you watching from start to finish. I have not seen a better flying movie ever produced. James Franco did a crazy good job. This movie is classic.

Its an entertaining movie,, it has romanticism, some action aswell and a little bit of humor. Although the story is kinda predictable and the acting is barely good even for Jean Reno who a great actor, its a film worth to watch because its based on real facts

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[font=Century Gothic]"Flyboys" is almost a good movie with spectacular action sequences(and I'd like to thank the Germans for flying the distinctive Fokker Triplanes), while at the same time not avoiding the harsh realities of war and the racism of the day. But it lacks a quality cast. I'm not talking famous names here, just performers with enough charisma to carry an action movie and that's certainly not James Franco who also gets trapped in an awkward romantic subplot. It is also one-sided against the Germans(I do suppose I should be grateful that it does not bash the French) and ends badly with some of the more predictable action of the movie.[/font]
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Jean Reno and James Franco are really great, but this movie suffers in the bad CGI, overly awkward scenes, and some crappy storytelling.

Flyboys suffers from a poor script, filled with cheesy clliches and underwritten characters. Though overall its' too CGI filled, it has enough energetic charm and good battle scenes to make it mildly entertaining.

I was very disappointed with this film, and it held so much promise because of the subject matter. The Lafayette Escadrille was a colorful batch of pilots of dubious background and experience that nevertheless were pretty effective as a combat unit. The real-life people involved certainly were interesting enough to warrant a film like this.

I think it was a case of a poor script and lack of budget, and selling a war film is never easy.They opted for fictional-based-on-fact set of characters that reduces them to cliches. I suppose they didn't want to be taken to task by creating a character profile of Raoul Lufbery that didn't jive with historical fanatics.

The cast wasn't the problem: They were pretty good, even if they were cardboard cutouts of actual historical members of the famous Lafayette Escadrille. James Franco does a decent job as the central Yankee flyer who joins up to flee his past. His love interest is improbable, but at least it had some awkward realism to it.

But even the combat situations were stock Hollywood: Rather than attempting to show a historic fight of the Escadrille, they created generic Germans. I guess that once again it was to make the film interesting to non-war buffs, they skimped on accuracy and detail in favor of flash. The CGI combats were too fast, way too fast. These kind of planes were pretty darn slow. The tactics and maneuver was what could make the combat exciting, but they fought like World War 2 aircraft instead. The mix of planes was very limited, so instead of encountering five models of aircraft it was literally the same Nieuports and Fokkers every dogfight. With CGI, you should be able to throw in an occasional odd plane.

This is an untapped era of film: The Knights of the Sky, and the much older 'Blue Max' still stands as one of the better depictions of air combat in World War One.

Great movie. The story is about the adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots

What a splendid and sweet, heartfelt film!~

Loved it!

Very good movie,and one of the better WW1 films.

Simply put, audiences are too cynical for these kinds of films nowadays unless they are extremely well made. Flyboys' potential lurks just below the surface, but its abysmal screenwriting brings the whole thing down. Dull but honest filmmaking.

Great action sequences. And there was great story behind the action. And to think this was based on real events, really makes you thankful that we don't have to go through stuff like this. Really well done. Good acting. The only thing I can't get my head around is how Cassidy had a lion as a pet?!?!

I love history and I really love movies about history, and this is a really good one. A great cast, and really great effects the dogfights were awesome.