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Gavin Partridge
Weird review. I usually respect Ebert far more than other critics, but I don't understand how he can honestly square this sentence;
""Red Tails" is entertaining. Audiences are likely to enjoy it."
With the negative rating?
Surely if a movie is "entertaining" and audiances will "enjoy it" your over half way there?
There does generally seem to be an extraordinary amount of nit picking about this movie (I've just read a review that picks up on the lack cigarettes!?!?!?) and an overall anti Lucas vibe going on here.
Jan 19 - 09:07 AM
Jeff Cook
Ive seen alot of reviews make star wars references to this movie than actually review the movie.
Was it entertaining? what about the acting? FLow or the film...action seemed fake? review the movie..not past movies and the director(which he didnt even direct this movie, that makes it worst)
Jan 19 - 09:22 AM
Keith Ballard
When I see a review like this that seems to contain a lot of filler I tend to take it as a bad sign. In many cases it means that the movie just offered nothing interesting to write about, which matches up with other reviewers' comments about this being a derivative war film. It's always harder to find stuff to write about with middle of the road films (Ebert's score was 2.5/4) than it is for particularly good and bad movies.
Jan 19 - 09:30 AM
Dave Mart
His review is not bad at all, he made many serious arguments on the part the film was lacking character strenght. Nevertheless, the goal of "Red Tails" is that of being a blockbuster, therefore, there's a lot of risk going on here. By the way, I'm not anti-Lucas, and nobody should be.
Jan 19 - 12:15 PM
Darius Xym
Lots of people will be entertained by big explosions. It doesn't mean the movie is worthy of the subject matter treating it with respect that that it deserves. See Pearl Harbor as another example of a war flick that trivializes human sacrifice for big explosions, cliches and trite dialog.
Jan 20 - 04:31 AM