While Red Tails is indeed a failure at what it sets out to do, it’s a strangely endearing one, a missed opportunity that wears its eagerness to please on its sleeve
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Title: Red Tails
Director: Anthony Hemingway
Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, Method Man, Ne-Yo, Bryan Cranston and Gerald McRaney
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Reviewed By Jason Gorber
Let me state at the outset that Red Tails will be seen as both a commercial and critical failure. It’s hard to see, despite the mass marketing blitz, how this film about the famed Tuskeegee airmen, the first black fighting air squadron in the US military, will manage even in this slow season to reap back its budget. Secondly, Executive Producer George Lucas has hardly endeared himself to critics, his archaic style and clunky dialogue often risible, with some going as far to blame him for the infantilization rampant in modern blockbuster cinema.
Still, underneath the hype and the expectation, beyond the 20 year quest that Lucas has undergone to see the film brought to the screens, and accepting the fact that this is a throwback, gee-whiz film of the 40s variety, how does Red Tails work on its own playing field?
Not very well, unfortunately.
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