Total FilmGeorge Lucas honours the African-American heroes of WWII with a popcorn memorial that's as eye-saucering as it is shamelessl...
TelegraphGeorge Lucas’s 'corny and old-fashioned’ homage to black airmen excels in the sky but not on the ground, writes Robbie Colli...
The GuardianFlat scripting condemns this George Lucas-produced account of African-American flying ace to run out of fuel in mid-air
E! OnlineGeorge Lucas' dream project for over two decades hits the big screen with spectacular dogfights, a strong cast and an ample ...
Hollywood ReporterAction-and-effects version of the Tuskegee airmen's story flies only when it's off the ground.
ReelViewsI wanted to like Red Tails. I really did. Largely financed by George Lucas (whose fingerprints are all over the final cut), ...
Chicago Sun-TimesThe Tuskegee Airmen were a group of African-American fighter pilots who were trained despite the racism entrenched in the U....
Chicago Sun-TimesSubstitute 1940s fighters for spaceships, move them closer to Earth, and you have the audience appeal of this movie.
Chicago TribuneRed Tails squanders a great subject, reducing the real-life struggles and fierce heroics of the Tuskegee Airmen to rickety c...
New York Daily NewsWhile 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 InquirerIt sets out to honor these heroes, and does so - but in ways that reduce their achievements to the stuff of cartoons.
Wall Street JournalIt's antiquated kitsch reprocessed by the producer's nostalgia for the movies of his boyhood.
The Boston GlobeRed 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 TodayIt'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 ChronicleThe Tuskegee Airmen, the trailblazing African American pilots who fought off segregation and Nazis during World War II, meri...
New York PostAn inspiring, rousing tribute to the heroic, history-changing Tuskegee Airmen and World War II movies of the '40s, Red Tails...
Washington PostThe African American fliers' great achievement merits a great movie. Red Tails isn't it.
Entertainment WeeklyNot so with Red Tails, a lavishly square historical drama about the Tuskegee Airmen, the very first African-American militar...
E! OnlineThe characters are fictional, but they're based on the real life Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-African-American aerial comb...
JobloAs it is, RED TAILS is just a CGI-heavy action flick, with cardboard characters. It’s not awful, but it’s very mediocre, and...
FirstShowingWeighed down in message, cheap in its thrills, and generally flat and uninteresting, Red Tails is the perfect example of how...
Film FractureRed 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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Director: Anthony Hemingway
Writer: John Ridley
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston
Release: January 20, 2012
Writer: John Ridley
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston
Release: January 20, 2012
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