Flyboys
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: September 22, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
13
Negative:
4
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70
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
A highly enjoyable programmer about those brave young men and their rickety flying machines. Read full review
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
As imaginatively as some of them are staged, the action scenes are never authentically gripping. This seems to be the hidden handicap of our new digital filmmaking era in which all big action sequences are generated in the computer and look vaguely like cartoons. Read full review
63
PremiereGlenn Kenny
Part of what makes these kind of war movies such cinematic comfort food (aside from the moral certainty they strive to convey) is their familiarity. But I wonder if said familiarity is what compels contemporary filmmakers to overstuff the material -- Flyboys is a good two hours and 20 minutes. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
While the aerial dogfights are handsome and apparently historically accurate, right down to the tracer bullets that leave graceful, crisscrossing trails in the clouds, they have a video-game feel. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
The movie's straightforward and ingratiating, and as pretty-boy history lessons go, it's a lot less obnoxious than "Pearl Harbor." Read full review
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