53 out of 70 people found the following review helpful:

Good story, but not too well told..

PaulaWestwood from , 6th June, 2007

Before the USA officially joined WW1, several american boys who did not have to do so, bravely (or for a sense of adventure) volunteered for action overseas. This is based on the true exploits of one of these groups. Therefore, though similar things have been comitted to film before, its not a bad reprise of a theme and the story does make this a worthwhile watch. Having said the above, and though the film is 'good', it does have a real spread on with a trowel 'boys own' comic feel about it, this is even taking into account the different etiquette and machinery of war in 1917 being very different than today. The air battle scenes look a bit like CGI from 10 years ago, and the general action and play of the film feels somehow contrived. It all lacks something 'gripping' to take it from just good to excellent. So there is nothing really new to see, but the story is worthwhile and scrapes a recommendation for that alone.

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6 out of 6 people found the following review helpful:

choc full of cheese

BunnyDees from from bristol, 3rd November, 2007

The pilots are the usual collection of US war film stereotypes. The moody one, the black one, the racist one who sees the error of his ways, the cowardly one who redeems himself etc. They do a lot of that saluting thing to each other when the music gets syrupy. They fly CGI planes from a video game. You can keep yourself amused ( well, not really ) by guessing exactly what will happen next. Absolute tripe.

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6 out of 6 people found the following review helpful:

MUSH

MC from Leicster, 24th October, 2007

Over the top meaningless mush, total garbage set to mellow dramatic string lines with a dialogue written on Steven Hawkings Mr spell machine. That pretty much sums it up.

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4 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

EXCELLENT

scorpion from , 8th January, 2008

TOPS ONE OFF THE BEST FILMS OFF 2007 GRAPHICS GREAT STORY LINE FAB AVERY GOOD 1ST WORLD WAR FILM

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Great movie

Cheesey from from St Annes on Sea, 20th August, 2009

Good story line some excellent flying duels - got entertainment - showed a lot of the useless leadership in the first world war.

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A Customer from Stamford, 16th July, 2009

This film is fantastic. Based on event from ww1. Some romance but the doyfighting was what made the film for me.

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Ok.

DCM from , 3rd July, 2009

For me this film never really got off the ground (fnar fnar). It was a good story based on true events, so I guess you can only write about what really happened, but it was quite slow and never really became good enough to have me gripped.

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buddaboy from , 19th May, 2009

a well enjoyed film a good story would buy

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