Main content | Search | Section navigation menu | Site-wide navigation menu

Main menu

 
 
 

Flyboys

 

USA 2006, 138 minutes
Dir. Tony Bill
Genres: Action/Adventure / War

Topics: Period - 1910s, Aviation.

 

Aroview: Soaring, occasionally hokey aviation adventure recalling the true-life exploits of the Lafayette Escadrille, a French fighter squadron patched together by a makeshift group of Americans who learn to fly bi-planes from scratch against the Germans during WWI.

Reliant heavily on spiffy array of dogfight sequences thrillingly rendered in CGI, the film is much less exhilarating as a human drama, deferring the bulk of its ground level action to bootcamp clichés and romantic melodrama, all the while ignoring the apparent horrors of war. James Franco heads the cast as a headstrong rancher whose boy’s own heroism rubs off on his fellow wingmen, while local lad Martin Henderson puts his handsome facial features to good use as the squadron’s strapping flying ace.

Member Reviews

Average rating 4 stars. (Very Good) (Very Good). Showing 1-1 of 1 member reviews.

Have your say  Reviewing Films

DVD Features

  • audio commentary
  • deleted scenes
  • 'making of' documentary / featurette
  • trailers
  • aspect ratio: 16:9
 

Close Relatives

Flyboys cover
Rental
DVD (R4) $6 Rent

Prices in $NZD (incl. GST)

Your basket is empty