One longs for more scenes between the ensemble on the ground, but the emphasis on aerial (and digital) technology leaves the characters without context.

This is a proper war film. That's to say one with crazy dogfights and (no, really) Nazis with prominent scars.

The true story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a squadron of African-American second world war flying aces, is one of those amazing tales that you just couldn't make up.

"Red Tails" succeeds in telling a worthwhile true story of history with a flair for action that can only come from a guy who knows his way around the Force.