Rotten
There's no sense of threat or danger: this is a film with its head stuck firmly in the clouds.
Tom Huddleston, Time Out
Red Tails
High-Octane Action and Daring Dogfights!
2012 · 2h 5m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Directed by
Anthony Hemingway
Overview
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
Director and cast
- Anthony Hemingway Director
- Bryan Cranston as Colonel William Mortamus
- David Oyelowo as Joe 'Lightning' Little
- Cuba Gooding Jr. as Major Emanuelle Stance
- Daniela Ruah as Sofia
- Terrence Howard as Col. A.J. Bullard
- Andre Royo as Antwan 'Coffee' Coleman
- Robert Kazinsky as Chester
- Lee Tergesen as Colonel Jack Tomlinson
- Matthew Leitch as Lt. David Long
- Michael B. Jordan as Maurice Wilson
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
41%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Sadly, Red Tails tells its inspiring story in the most old-fashioned, Saturday-afternoon-at-the-movies kind of way. The movie occasionally flies but it never soars.
Leah Rozen, TheWrap
Rotten
This is so generic as storytelling that it fails even as a basic history lesson: it's hard to believe that the stock conflicts on-screen have any connection to real events.
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Fresh
One can get away with a lot of cornball speeches a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away but it doesn't work nearly as well a short time ago on planet Earth.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
Red Tails is better than nothing - but "nothing" isn't the other option. That HBO film is still out there, and Red Tails doesn't add to it or improve upon it.
Eric D. Snider, Film.com
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