I really wanted to love this movie. Visually, it's absolutely gorgeous! Unfortunately, the "friendship" which is supposed to be the emotional core of the movie rings completely hollow. One of the two main characters is not a character at all. Lt. Hudner has literally zero characteristics (except not being racist), and the movie fails to make me care about him or even believe that he's a real person. Why does he care about Jesse so much? Because he's black? Because Daisy asked him to in their one short conversation? Such a disappointment. Not a terrible movie, but it could really have been great.

It was alright. It was like 95% drama 5% action which was pretty disappointing for me at least. The main focus of the movie was about the struggles of being an African American in the 1950's which I felt was lazily executed.

I was hoping for more, the trailer looked really good but got pretty much what I expected. It's basically a 2 hour eye roll with about 10 minutes of action thrown in the middle. If you don't know anything about the military you might like the action part but if you do then it's just 2 hours of straight eye roll. This could have been such a great story but I think it's a law that you can't have a black guy in a movie unless the whole movie is centered around race (except Blade (and that's why Wesley Snipes is the best)). Anyway maybe one day Hollywood will get tired of telling the same story over and over and over again with different characters and settings. I gave it a 5 because I like planes, if it weren't for the fighter planes I probably would have given it a 2.

Good flight scenes, fine acting, and an interesting true story at the core. Unfortunately, the movie falls down a bit when it comes to telling that story as it fails to engage on an emotional level. The old fashioned dialogue is also a hindrance but it's still a movie worth watching, if only for a reminder of the man that inspired it.

This movie is boring. There are way better war, pilot, racial movies out there.