Finally watched Red Tails (2012) - IMDb. If you are willing to suspend (ie...forcefully hold it down, tie it with some hefty tie-down straps, bolt an iron lid on it, and weld it into place) disbelief, its not a bad action movie. If you're willing to look past the generally crappy acting and thin plot and angsty hero-types, its not a bad movie. If you're willing to ignore the fact that 90% of the movie is a CGI love-fest (seriously...when two planes land within mere yards of each other, and its obvious that the second one is a copy/paste of the first one and lands with synchronized precision to make a BlueAngels pilot weep...), its not a bad movie. If you're blind in one eye and have the other closed, its not a bad movie.
All that being said....I failed at most of the above. I did manage to keep my eyes open for the movie, but it was difficult. WW2 movie, yes. Will I buy it? Nope.
Sad to agree with you RA! I watched it on pay per view Saturday night. Was not expecting much, and Redtails did not fail to deliver! How hard is it to make a serious, WW2 aviation movie in the same vein as Saving Private Ryan, or BoB? Something close to realistic?