Red Tails
Red Tails
PG-13 | 20 January 2012 (USA)
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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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SmugKitZine

Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Catangro

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

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Mehdi Hoffman

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

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Scotty Burke

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

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kiarahall-18872

WRITE REVIEW BELOW: Was this movie worth it? In my opinion it was not because i feel like it didn't go into depth and only showed the exciting parts and the victory. I think there were more tough things that happend. Overall the movie could have been way better and you will see why i say this if you watch. The movie Red Tails came out in 2012 and made 50 million, written by John Ridley and directed by Anthony Hemingway. Some actors are Cuba Gooding jr., and Gerald McRaney, you would think the movie is awesome. Red tails had 9 award recommendations and won 2. It is rated 4.5 stars out of 10. This movie focuses on the tuskegee airmen, a group of all African American pilots during WWII. It shows segregation and problems they faced. As the movie begins it shows the relationships between a group of the fighters Marty " Easy" Julian, Joe "lightning" Little, Ray Gun and Smokey. The first part of the movie starts with showing how the Red Tails weren't getting any missions that involved actual fighting. As the movie continues it shows how they started getting opportunities to fight and protect some of the bombers. The best parts in this movie is the fighting scenes. The fighting parts and the sound effects seemed so real, that you will think it was real. Another good part is when Ray Gun got held as a prisoner of war at concentration camp, for me it showed a different side because I didn't know much about Prisoners of War. I would give this movie a 4.5 out of 10, it could have been way better and had so much more potential. In my opinion this movie is more entertaining than factual, i would recommend this movie to a group of 7-13 years old. There were some good parts like the fighting and that's about it. If i didn't know anything about the red tails i would have found it way more interesting. I don't think the movie showed much of the trails and hard times they faced, the film could have included much more on what they had faced being black pilots during WWII. You are suggesting

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erikajefferson-33378

¨ A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard. ¨ I feel as though reading that part alone makes the movie a great movie because there are not a lot of movies with the starring roles as african american black men as the stars . The movies talks about segregation and how bad it was during WWll , A black getting together with a white women, the black men getting crappy material, treated bad by other WHITE pilots and etc. and to watch that movie and see that they didn't want help during the war, why were they trying to belittle them and trying to deny them the right to fly . SO I think this was a Great movie !

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Marcelo Alvim

A very good, historical film and shows the overcoming, beyond its own limits, the racial problem that is meaningless in humanity and lived in intensity here. A very exciting film, and also shows the differences of personalities and where it leads to each, uauuuu, there is heart! I recommend!!!The filmmaker is American and Black, Anthony Hemingway Underground (2016) and American Crime Story (2016), I hardly know him, he works a lot in TV series. The protagonists are excellent Cuba Gooding Jr. Love Beyond Life (1998), Best Is Impossible (1997) and Talented Hands (TV Movie of 2009), among others and many others, full of beautiful stars in this film.

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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!

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