When i saw this on Sky (other Service providers available ;) ) and read the information I thought all my Birthdays had come at once... History, WW2, aerial combat, i got so excited my girlfriend had to grab a near by defib.
In a nutshell, oh my God... I'm so glad i watched it for free, what a let-down.
How some people can say the CGI is any good i really don't know. If you look at some of the outdoor scenes where the background has been mocked up it's really funny, look at the extras, you can tell they feel uncomfortable being there staring at the "green wall" in front of them, i'm sure you can even see their shadows against it at some points. Some extras in one scene (a mild party scene) even look at the camera!
As for everything else: The planes look crap, the explosions are crap, the tracer fire is crap, the flak looks crap. Some damage on the plane doesn't look too bad in all fairness but is totally unreasonable lol. Way too much gore to try and drive it all home too, if they'd of made a half decent film in the first place they wouldn't of had to worry about litres of fake, pink blood to try and make up for it.
Actors are terrible (the only face i recognised was the Sherminator from American Pie, the rest are nobody's), script is terrible (flicks from scene to scene all the time) and you go pretty much the whole film without ANY action and i mean it. People say the last 15 minutes is the best, but it really isn't, it's the most cringe worthy i think.
The real people who flew these aircraft went through real, unspeakable horrors. The flying fortresses were big, slow moving targets full of high explosive. Think what type of man it would of taken to get in that aircraft time and time again knowing the odds were stacked against you (if they were lucky enough to return from their first run). I think this film is a bit of an insult to them to be honest.
If you're really bored and have a mild interest in history then give it a watch, but by-god, don't pay for it and don't buy it on blue-ray or anything because it really won't help. Stick to the Memphis Belle, a film made 22 years ago which is 22 times better than this pile of filth.
In a nutshell, oh my God... I'm so glad i watched it for free, what a let-down.
How some people can say the CGI is any good i really don't know. If you look at some of the outdoor scenes where the background has been mocked up it's really funny, look at the extras, you can tell they feel uncomfortable being there staring at the "green wall" in front of them, i'm sure you can even see their shadows against it at some points. Some extras in one scene (a mild party scene) even look at the camera!
As for everything else: The planes look crap, the explosions are crap, the tracer fire is crap, the flak looks crap. Some damage on the plane doesn't look too bad in all fairness but is totally unreasonable lol. Way too much gore to try and drive it all home too, if they'd of made a half decent film in the first place they wouldn't of had to worry about litres of fake, pink blood to try and make up for it.
Actors are terrible (the only face i recognised was the Sherminator from American Pie, the rest are nobody's), script is terrible (flicks from scene to scene all the time) and you go pretty much the whole film without ANY action and i mean it. People say the last 15 minutes is the best, but it really isn't, it's the most cringe worthy i think.
The real people who flew these aircraft went through real, unspeakable horrors. The flying fortresses were big, slow moving targets full of high explosive. Think what type of man it would of taken to get in that aircraft time and time again knowing the odds were stacked against you (if they were lucky enough to return from their first run). I think this film is a bit of an insult to them to be honest.
If you're really bored and have a mild interest in history then give it a watch, but by-god, don't pay for it and don't buy it on blue-ray or anything because it really won't help. Stick to the Memphis Belle, a film made 22 years ago which is 22 times better than this pile of filth.