Red Tails

2012 • 124 minutes

À propos de ce film

Academy Award® Winner Cuba Gooding Jr. and Academy Award® Nominee Terrence Howard lead a powerful ensemble cast in this high-flying epic inspired by the real-life adventures of the first African-American combat unit to serve in World War II. Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky...even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.

Notes et avis

This was absolutely terrible. There was close to no research done into the era when it came to weapons. (one scene a destroyer is shot at by one of the planes and explodes...) They have the machine guns going off like 500lb bombs. Completely ridiculous, I tried to ignore the little things because it's a movie and supposed to be fun. But they pushed the suspension of disbelief far far far beyond what is reasonable. Even for someone who is not interested in that time period it's obvious that nothing here makes sense.

The action scenes were phenomenal. The dialog was well written. Generally speaking, a very good movie. It is very sad that electrical and aeronautical engineers (and they were) from a great university such as Tuskegee, we're treated with such disregard. They were officer's and gentleman. But that was just the way it was in 1944.The past cannot be changed.

BLACKS BROUGHT BACK HOME - THEIR WAR SUCCESS, AND CHANGED RACISM ATTITUDES, PAVING THE WAY FOR RACIAL IMPROVEMENTS LATER. P.S. P51's were slower than the few jets but i read some were shot down.