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Red Tails


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Total Film
George Lucas honours the African-American heroes of WWII with a popcorn memorial that's as eye-saucering as it is shamelessl...
Telegraph
George Lucas’s 'corny and old-fashioned’ homage to black airmen excels in the sky but not on the ground, writes Robbie Colli...
The Guardian
Flat scripting condemns this George Lucas-produced account of African-American flying ace to run out of fuel in mid-air
E! Online
George Lucas' dream project for over two decades hits the big screen with spectacular dogfights, a strong cast and an ample ...
Metromix
'Red Tails' only soars in the air
Chicago Tribune
Heroism loses to Hollywood in 'Red Tails'
Hollywood Reporter
Action-and-effects version of the Tuskegee airmen's story flies only when it's off the ground.
ReelViews
I wanted to like Red Tails. I really did. Largely financed by George Lucas (whose fingerprints are all over the final cut), ...
Chicago Sun-Times
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American fighter pilots who were trained despite the racism entrenched in the U....
Chicago Sun-Times
Substitute 1940s fighters for spaceships, move them closer to Earth, and you have the audience appeal of this movie.
Chicago Tribune
Red Tails squanders a great subject, reducing the real-life struggles and fierce heroics of the Tuskegee Airmen to rickety c...
The New York Times
A mildly entertaining classroom instructional about the Tuskegee Airmen.
New York Daily News
While its cast is first-rate and its flying sequences sharp, the movie is as glazed and wide-eyed as a 70-year-old comic boo...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
It sets out to honor these heroes, and does so - but in ways that reduce their achievements to the stuff of cartoons.
Wall Street Journal
It's antiquated kitsch reprocessed by the producer's nostalgia for the movies of his boyhood.
The Boston Globe
Red Tails has its moments. They've just gone too far in the other direction. The movie is so desperate to be palatable, to a...
USA Today
It's only half of a good movie. As soon as those dogfighting planes land, the story trips up by skimming the surface of hist...
San Francisco Chronicle
The Tuskegee Airmen, the trailblazing African American pilots who fought off segregation and Nazis during World War II, meri...
New York Post
An inspiring, rousing tribute to the heroic, history-changing Tuskegee Airmen and World War II movies of the '40s, Red Tails...
Washington Post
The African American fliers' great achievement merits a great movie. Red Tails isn't it.
Entertainment Weekly
Not so with Red Tails, a lavishly square historical drama about the Tuskegee Airmen, the very first African-American militar...
E! Online
The characters are fictional, but they're based on the real life Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-African-American aerial comb...
IGN Movies
George Lucas has done it again. Not in a good way.
Joblo
As it is, RED TAILS is just a CGI-heavy action flick, with cardboard characters. It’s not awful, but it’s very mediocre, and...
FirstShowing
Weighed down in message, cheap in its thrills, and generally flat and uninteresting, Red Tails is the perfect example of how...
Film Fracture
Red Tails does not illicit an emotional response that gets the audience worked up...the viewer just waits until they hop in ...

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Partial Film Information

Director: Anthony Hemingway
Writer: John Ridley
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston

Release: January 20, 2012
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