A Nutshell Review: Flyboys
This is yet another war movie coming out of Hollywood, but this
time it leaves the dramatics and contemplative issues aside, and
focus on the action pieces. With its prologue flashing across the
screen that we're expecting to learn about the heroes of the war,
you know the mood is set for some wham-bam pyrotechnics and
stunts.
Movies set in WWI are different in the sense that it's the first
massive war on a near global scale, which uses various weapons for
the first time, and these weapons, though standard of today, were
considered weapons of mass destruction for that time with its
ability to inflict mass casualties. Weapons like machine guns,
tanks, planes, and even chemical warfare unleashed into the
trenches are hallmarks of WWI. Flyboys, as the title puts it, turns
the spotlight on a group of mostly American volunteers into the
French Lafayette Escadrille, a flight squadron. With the plane a
relatively new piece of technology in those days, you can trust us
humans to find methods to turn technology into killing
machines.
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