Being that this was a Lucasfilm release, I had considered watching it in the theater, even more so as it featured WWII dog fighting, which George Lucas had based his space battles on. The preveiews looked promising, but some how I never made it to the theater. Still, somewhere deep in my heart I hoped that this film would be a runaway success like Star Wars and add another franchise to Lucasfilm.
While I had read that the film didn't do great at the box office, I thought it was fairly well done as far as story elements went. Some of the claims by the airmen will rather incredulous, as well as how many kills the squadron got, compared to nearly non existent losses. While the air combat was good, it wasn't enough to make it as thrilling an experience as some other films which included dog fighting.
As for the name, it is interesting as it is not clear why it was called that name at first, and the name tells little about the content of the film. Also such as name is Red Tails seems like it could be confused with the name of an animated feature.
Historically, this is a group and situations that people need to be aware of, and for that alone, it's good that it was made. It was a good film, but perhaps not a great one.
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