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By: debbie lynn elias\"Flyboys_Poster\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

There was a time that September and the onset of Fall brought such excitement to me.\u00a0 Back to school (yes folks, I actually loved school), new clothes (albeit sometimes ugly ones purchased by my mother), change of seasons, crispness in the air, the warmth of fall foliage and of course, a plethora of Oscar worthy movie releases.\u00a0\u00a0 No matter how bad a day, how mean a teacher, how incompetent or nasty an employer, or how embarrassing the outfit, there was always the joy and excitement of the big Fall movie releases.\u00a0\u00a0 Sadly, times, they are a changin\u2019 and never moreso than with a plethora of disappointing \u201cbig release\u201d Fall films.\u00a0 The latest victim – FLYBOYS.<\/p>\n

Long anticipated (by me at least) for its alleged accuracy and romanticism of World War I and those volunteer American Flyboys known as the Lafayette Escadrille, at the end of this film, I was in tears – and not from the horrors of war, but rather the horrors of poor plot, awful acting and disastrous direction.<\/p>\n

Lensed from a computer generated \u201ceye-in-the-sky\u201d, FLYBOYS is essentially the story of what would change the face of combat forever – the airplane.\u00a0 Set in 1917, hand to hand combat is the still the way of war between England, France and Germany.\u00a0\u00a0 Tensions are high.\u00a0 The battlefields are littered with the blood of young men fighting for what would be \u201cthe war to end all wars.\u201d\u00a0 (Ah, 20-20 hindsight.\u00a0 If only they had known what the future held for mankind.)\u00a0\u00a0 But, tides are about to turn thanks to a new weapon – the airplane.\u00a0 Helmed by a squadron of 38 eager volunteers, the Lafayette Escadrille enter the new frontier of air combat as they take to the skies in their rickety canvas and cardboard flying machines.<\/p>\n

With typical American bravado, Blaine Rawlings, Eugene Skinner and William Jensen, among others, can\u2019t wait for the United States to enter the European fracas.\u00a0 Determined to make a name for themselves and feel that thrill of the rush of victory and adoration of millions of young women, they volunteer to fight for France as part of the Lafayette Escadrille.\u00a0 Meeting up with disgruntled and distant American flyer Reed Cassidy, full of salt and vinegar, the boys are romanticized as they engage in dogfights with the Germans and most notably, as they take on a German zeppelin.\u00a0 Battle scarred and battle weary, at the end of each fight, they kick back at a comfortable chateau with a soft down bed, some good cigars and fine bottles of French cognac wine, singing bawdy identifiable war songs.\u00a0 Ands tossed in for good measure is their lollygagging about between battles as they discuss their hapless existences back in the States that, although never developed, seems to be the impetus for each to wanna be somebody.<\/p>\n

\"Flyboys_2\"<\/p>\n

Go-to guy James Franco takes to the skies as irreverent and irascible Blaine Rawlings.\u00a0 Generally solid in period pieces, Franco falls short here and gives a sense of a free-fall performance without the benefit of a script or ensemble characters.<\/p>\n

A Texan with a flawed Southern accent that comes and goes like an airplane going in and out of camera shot, this flaw follows him throughout the film and detracts from what could have been at least a more pleasing performance.\u00a0\u00a0 Veteran Jean Reno takes on the esteemed roll of squadron leader Captain Thenault in what is undoubtedly the strongest performance of the film.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The talents of Abdul Salis are wasted as the lone Black Flyboy, Eugene Skinner.\u00a0 In what could have been a well developed role, the writers just gloss over the character as if commonplace and like every other soldier.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s not and shouldn\u2019t be dismissed out of hand.\u00a0\u00a0 One of my long time favorites Mac McDonald is a standout of Sheriff Detweiler.\u00a0 Having appeared in everything from \u201cThe Young Indiana Jones\u201d to \u201cFifth Element\u201d, McDonald is never a disappointment and thankfully, stays true to form here.\u00a0 Casting made a good choice with Philip Winchester as Flyboy William Jensen.\u00a0 Cutting his \u201cairchops\u201d in Jonathan Frakes 2004 comedy \u201cThunderbirds\u201d, Winchester provides an eager maturity befitting his character and the men of the Lafayette Escadrille.<\/p>\n

The problems with this film start with script.\u00a0 Written by veteran scribe David S. Ward and newcomers Blake T. Evans and Phil Sears, based on a true life story, we have a mish-mosh of hodgepodge – something I would never have expected from Ward.\u00a0 And Evans, well known for his often lush cinematography in tv films such as \u201cAu Pair\u201d, fails to translate his visual acuity to the written or spoken word – although I give him much credit for the story concept on which this film is based.\u00a0\u00a0 Cliched to the Nth degree, if there was ever a standout line or scene in any war movie ever made, you will find it mangled to death here.\u00a0\u00a0 And the romanticizing of the airmen?\u00a0\u00a0 Winding, dining and bedding refugees doesn\u2019t really come across as a romanticized take on anything – especially given the current political climate of the world not just now, but then.\u00a0 There is no heart.\u00a0 No soul to the characters.\u00a0 A sense of\u00a0 \u201cfly in, fly out\u201d permeates the films and results in an inability to connect with any character or the film as a whole.<\/p>\n

\"Flyboys_3\"<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s director Tony Bill.\u00a0 A king among tv series direction (although, I will forgive him for Dirty Dancing – the TV show), the expected or anticipated magnitude of FLYBOYS may have proven just too much for him.\u00a0\u00a0 While I applaud his initial efforts and desire to construct replicas of the WWI prop plane flying machines for actual air battle sequences, his fallback to CGI technology following an accident with the unstable prop-plane craft, is disappointing.\u00a0 With technology what it is, I expected more visually once he went to CGI.\u00a0 I must commend him, however, for the CGI sequence between a German zeppelin and the Flyboys.\u00a0\u00a0 The most exciting and visually stimulating scene in the entire film, while passable, it unfortunately, still falls short and appears too \u201ccomputer basic\u201d and let\u2019s face it, un-three-dimensional. And why, with his talents and expertise, Blake Evans didn\u2019t at least salvage part of the film by stepping in as its cinematographer is something I will never understand.\u00a0\u00a0 The one saving grace – Charles Woods\u2019 production design – Outstanding!<\/p>\n

\"Flyboys_1\"<\/p>\n

You can almost see the dream, you can almost feel what, I believe, the filmmakers hoped to achieve – an authenticity,\u00a0 more genteel yet patriotic time, a more romanticized period, when men were men and Flyboys were idolized like celebrities or wannabes on \u201cAmerican Idol.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately, all that I see for FLYBOYS is it flying into the sunset and away from the box office charts with its rudder tucked beneath its wings.<\/p>\n

James Franco: Blaine Rawlings<\/p>\n

Jean Reno: Captain Georges Thenault<\/p>\n

MacMcDonald: Sheriff Detweiler<\/p>\n

Philip Winchester: William Jensen<\/p>\n

Directed by Tony Bill.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Written by David S. Ward, Blake T. Evans and Phil Sears based on a story by Blake T. Evans.\u00a0 Rated Pg-13.\u00a0 (139 min)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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