It's been a while since the last truly rousing WWI dogfight films: Wings came out in 1927, Hell's Angels in 1930. (No, 1966's The Blue Max isn't good enough.) The time is ripe for a new ''Red Baron'' movie. Which makes Flyboys' pedestrian drama — about a group of Yanks who move to France to battle tri-wing German fighters — and videogame lameness all the lamer: This is a lost opportunity on an epic scale. The actors are so styled and the dogfights so drippy with CG that, as a period piece, the movie almost looks like it's set in the future.
Image credit: Flyboys: Jay Maidment
GROUNDED Franco and the other pilots fight with CG — and lose — in Flyboys
EW's GRADE
C-Details Release Date: Sep 22, 2006; Rated: PG-13; Length: 139 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama; With: James Franco and Jean Reno; Distributor: MGM
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