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Flyboys, 2006

Starring: Jean Reno, James Franco

Directed by: Tony Bill

Written by: Blake T. Evans

Language: English, French

Country: UK, USA

Runtime: 140 min

MPAA Rating: PG_13

Rating:6.5

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Flyboys can be described as exciting, rough, and suspenseful. The plot revolves around military life, a heroic mission, and racism. The main genres are drama, action, and adventure. In approach, Flyboys is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, on an airplane. It is located in France. Flyboys takes place during World War 1. It is adapted from a play and originally a true story. It is well suited for a boys' night.

Summary of Flyboys

FLYBOYS is a good old-fashioned historical drama concerning the Lafayette Escadrille, a French regiment of American volunteer airmen serving the allied cause in WWI before the U.S. became officially involved. James Franco plays Blaine, a Texas rancher; he bunks with Eugene (Abdul Salis), an African American boxer whose been living in Paris as an ex-patriate to get away from American racism. Other fighters include a pampered New York scion (Tyler Labine) and a lanky, lazy Kansan (David Ellison). They all train under the patient hand of the French commander, succinctly embodied by the wondrous Jean Reno (THE PROFESSIONAL). Martin Henderson (TORQUE) is good and brusque as a jaded flier with a bunch of kills under his belt and an obsession with an ace German fighter; he wont let the new kids drink in the officer's club until they've shot down their first planes. It all unfolds in a no-nonsense linear narrative that reminds one of early films like THE DAWN PATROL (1930) and WINGS (1927); and there's a comfortingly familiar orchestral score that's heavy with the cloud-invoking wooden flute. But the CGI-enhanced aerial dogfight scenes are the crux of the biscuit here, and history fans should be frothing at the mouth with all the zeppelins, dogfights and enemy chivalry. There's plenty of well-researched period detail and even some ooh-la la romance in the form of a good girl gone semi-bad from a nearby brothel (the very charming Jennifer Decker).

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Language:	English, French
Country:	UK, USA
Release date:	22 September 2006
Runtime:	140 min

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Jean Reno

as Capt. Thenault

James Franco

as Blaine Rawlings

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The Hollywood Reporter

A decidedly old-fashioned war film that reaches for epic sweep but is often bogged down in cliched drama and two-dimensional characters. Full Review

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by: Sheri Linden

The New York Times

Despite its empty head and arduous length, Flyboys is ever so nice, in the manner of a Norman Rockwell illustration. The director, Tony Bill, may not be a philosopher but he is a gentleman, moving things along with a tidy, well-mannered hand. In... Full Review

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by: Nathan Lee

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The film's chief merit is that it shows how dangerous and how immediate combat flying was in world war I. It also faithfully reproduced the European and American fighting spirit prior to World War I, something we'll never get back to. The people who... Read and rate it

04.March.2011
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by: Dale Williams
Dale Williams rated this movie0/10

I really wanted to love this movie. It had all the ingredients of a great film: exciting setting, romantic heroes, high emotion, and visually exciting stories. But it lets you down by settling for formula. You are not surprised by anything other... Read and rate it

23.September.2010
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by: Spike72AFA
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