Red Tails

Terrence Howard's inspiring speeches got old fast.

The dialogue for white pilots was like something a 12 year old would write, because they pretty much just said out loud what was happening on screen or expressed their feelings in short, simplistic sentences. Like "Those black pilots did OK. I NOW LIKE BLACK PEOPLE AND AM NO LONGER RACIST." Its almost like something out of a Family Guy sketch. Black dialogue wasn't much better with them joking and having a good old time like they were hanging out in a bar...but during a life-and-death dog fight. I half expected one of them to go YIPEE!!! like young Anakin in Phantom Menace.

Action was decent but not great. Climax was over in a flash and there was no tension during it. They cut down jet planes like they were Wright brothers planes.

Love scenes were pretty bad but not as bad as Attack of the Clones because at least here they couldn't speak to each other.

I don't normally harp on technical inaccuracies in war movies because its nearly completely beside the point (thats right, Org war buffs!), but seeing a particular maneuver done twice that looked like something only an X-wing could do was a bit much. It was cartoonish.

It just came off as much more corny, simple and overly reverent than it needed to be. Now that I've seen it I agree with the criticisms I heard. It needed to be more serious and darker. Miracle at St. Anna was better in every way (St. Anna is highly underrated IMO), and even Windtalkers (which was basically Hard Boiled dressed up as a WW2 movie) handled this kind of thing better. The tone of the movie is akin to propaganda (it actually ends with a patriotic speech with the "star-spangled banner" playing in the background) which doesn't ever really sit right with me. War is a dark thing and therefore I like my war movies to be dark.

I don't regret seeing it the one time, but that'll be it.

TL;DR - It's exactly what you imagine a George Lucas affiliated war movie to be: a ball of corn covered in cheese.