Red Tails

2012 "High-Octane Action and Daring Dogfights!"
5.9| 2h5m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 20 January 2012 Released
Producted By: Lucasfilm Ltd.
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.redtails2012.com/
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The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

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Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.
Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
najiyanasimeon The action in this movie is awesome, my favorite part is when the German head leader was being shot at by lighting, the German pulled a trick from turning to shoot at lighting but Ez saved lightening and shot down the German head leader. This movie gave African Americans a lot of recognition. This movie was created in 2012, it was mainly about African Americans in World War II that completed great accomplishments. Although, there was segregation they did not let that stop them from doing their job. The movie was mainly about the life of the African American men during WWII, all what they accomplished. The goals that they met and didn't meet . During the time of the war they didn't have great equipment such as their plane, it was not as advanced as the other American planes. They painted the tails of their plane red to be different from the others. A interesting scene the movie I really liked was when the "Red Tails" were able to get over to the Germans base and destroy a lot of their weapons and soldiers. This was important to the movie because the African American men were the only one to be able to accomplish this. I would recommend this to children and adult, 8+. This movie is very important to African American history.
antwonstokes Red Tails is a good movie that talks about African American soldiers saving the World. The Red Tails wanted to make a big change in history and they did. In the movie after Joe Little died it in courage the Red Tails to fight harder.
rdoyle29 This film opens with a CGI aerial battle that is literally of the quality I would expect from a direct-to-DVD film by a company like The Asylum. It's shockingly embarrassing for a theatrical release with a $58 million budget. Even the font used in the titles smells like a no budget film. It does get better than this, but not as much as it should. Explosions are all CGI and don't look like they exist in the same plane as the physical objects. Oddly, every German pilot in this film appears to be exactly the same person. Effects aside, this film is intended to play more like a 1950's era war movie than a modern one. That's a valid choice, but it doesn't play like a good one. The story is, on the face of it, an interesting one, but the narrative strokes are so unbelievably broad that the film really doesn't progress after the basic plot setup is done. Some of the actors do a pretty fine job given the one dimensionality of their characters (David Oyelowo is particularly good), but they have precious little to work with.
ramblerd-64658 "Red Tails" is terrible, sometimes hilariously terrible, though I really couldn't enjoy the movie for its ineptitude because it's an affront to the real men who fought. I knew the movie had a bad reputation but I figured at least the aerial battles would be good, but no, they just looked like a video game and the pilots were doing all the wrong things. There were some good performances, but Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding Jr. just phoned it in. They probably knew from the script that the movie was a dog. Such a shame.I plan to see "The Tuskegee Airmen" soon; hope it's a lot better than this!