Red Tails

Red Tails is possibly the best WWII movie since Pearl Harbor.

Unless I can count Captain America, then forget it.

But back to Pearl Harbor.  That was a great Hour Long movie surrounded by 2 1/2 hours of pointless drama and fluffy love story.

Red Tails takes the opposite approach and attempts to tell a great story, and sneak about 20 minutes of love story throughout.

And for the most part, it succeeds.

To compress the accomplishments of the Tuskeegee Airmen into a 2 hour movie does a disservice to what they were able to accomplish as an experiment that was doomed to fail.  It is alluded to in the movie, but again, trying to compress for time, it is nothing short of remarkable.

The movie wasn't a big hit in theaters, which is a shame.  Is it because it's about "black history" so the demographic is limited in appeal?  Possibly, but that's a shame.  The Red Tails are not black history, they are American History.

If they don't fly, the bombers don't make it to target or come home.  The war drags on.  The outcome would likely be the same, but it could have taken longer, and cost countless more lives.

Nope, I'm chalking this one up to one of the better Hollywood takes on the efforts honoring the generation that saved the world from Nazi tyranny.

4 out of 5.  A little long, you can blame that on the love story.  But at least it wasn't Pearl Harbor.

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