Nice, competent movie

I enjoyed the film a lot despite knowing a great deal about the conflict. If the viewer can overlook the errors, the film is watchable and even entertaining. The producers did the best they could, although I will fault them for having so many red Fokker DRIs. Not a great film, but a great effort.

- JKHolman

I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Just a nice little flick. It ain't Helps Angels or Dawn Patrol, but what is?

Competent? Nice aerial combat sequences? SOME factual errors?

What film did you watch?

What we really have are the wrong airplanes going up against airplanes that weren't invented yet, in a movie which has "all the German squadrons were the Flying Circus and led by the Red Baron" disease, completely annihilating the laws of physics and firing guns in directions they could not aim, with rotary ammo drums and rotary engines which did not rotate, bracing wires that were in all the wrong places and did not sing, and every airplane had strengths where the real ones had weaknesses and weaknesses where the real ones had strengths.

As with the movie Pearl Harbor, ignorance is strength when watching this movie. If you know the tiniest iota of fact about the first air war, it's hard to believe. If you know a little, your suspension of disbelief cannot be maintained for ten seconds. If you know who Manfred, Frieherr von Richthofen is, your intelligence is mortally insulted.

Which wouldn't be so bad if the plot were even slightly interesting.

Stick to Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels, which will still be enjoyed long after the last print of this turkey is mercifully lost.

It's entertaining. I liked most of the cast, the score is amazing, and the action is cool.

Well worth watching.