A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.
Red Tails, if you haven't already deduced, is the story of a squadron of negro fighter pilots aka the Tuskeegee Airmen, --with more flying and less disease testing-- who against all odds, aided in the war effort for the allied soldiers.
The Situation:
The army had decided that negroes were unfit to fly airplanes and have decided to shutter their program, but with the help of a high ranking white officer and their Colonel, The Red Squad gets one final mission to prove themselves. If they succeed, they will give their unit some credibility and if they fail and the government has every reason to shut them down.
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Red Tails is drama for the sake of drama so be warned. There's a leader who is an alcoholic with daddy issues, a glory hog who has issues following orders, a rookie pilot captured by the enemy, racial tension, world war --Shit, this could have been a Tyler Perry film, If they played up the black Jesus did a bit more and actually had a wedding. On top of all that, a lot of this shit was telegraphed, but it is what it is.
What I didn't know though was that it also starred Heisenberg,
Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr and bubbles from the wire.
Anyway, I'm torn between giving this a two or a three. On one end, it's a long and relatively pointless exercise in drama and on the other, air battles and fighter jets are dope. The problem with this is that I can't give half scores and since I'm even having this discussion (albeit with myself) I'll have to scale upwards.
Lame
Violence? Yes
Explosions? Yes
Nudity? No
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