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Description: Featuring an all-star cast headed by Laurence Fishburne, fireballs of high speed air action explode off the screen in this exciting story of the "Fighting 99th," the first squadron of black American pilots to be allowed to fight for their country. Based on the true story.Amazon.com: This true story of the black flyers who broke the color barrier in the U.S. Air Force during World War II is a well-intentioned film highlighted by an excellent cast. Proud, solemn, Iowa-born Laurence Fishburne and city-kid hipster Cuba Gooding Jr. are among the hopefuls who meet en route to Tuskegee Air Force Base, where they are among the recruits for an "experimental" program to "prove" the abilities of the black man in the U.S. armed services. Fighting prejudice from racist officers and government officials and held to a consistently higher level of performance than their white counterparts, these men prove themselves in training and in combat, many of them dying for their country in the process. Andre Braugher costars as a West Point graduate who takes charge of the unit in Africa and in Italy (where it's christened the 332nd). The film is rousing, if slow starting and episodic, but it's periodically grounded by a host of war movie clichés, notably the calculated demise of practically every trainee introduced in the opening scenes (ironic given the 332nd's real-life combat record--high casualties for the enemy, low casualties among themselves, and no losses among the bombers they escorted). Ultimately the Emmy-nominated performances by moral backbone Fishburne and the dedicated Braugher and the energy and cocky confidence of Gooding give their battles both on and off the battlefield the sweet taste of victory. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews:
- Unfortunate: I was extremely happy with my purchase of the Tuskagee Aiman as I hunted high and low and Amazon was the only one that had it ,so you can understand how happy I was when I put it in the DVD player and I got a message saying it would't play.This was unfortunate especially for me and I realise that it isn't your fault.These things happen sometimes when people buy from overseas.but that's the way it goes.I would be most happy to have written a good review but this time I can't.
John Kirby
P.s. I repeat, it isn't any fault of your's - Una película formidable: Aparte de ser una gran película, tiene un argumento de fondo muy importante sobre la discriminación a la raza negra. Muy de moda en las elecciones de EEUU.
- Excellent male role models!: I used this movie for a Citizenship Group for adolescent boys with serious conduct and self-esteem issues. They not only watched it, but they were excited about the fact that the movie was based on real-life. Several have asked to have it shown again soon. I highly recommend it, especially for minority kids and adults.
- Airmen Review: This film is a wonderful movie about the Tuskegee Airmen. This is a great story about the development and implementation of Black pilots into flight school and eventually deploying their squadron into the front line during the Second World War. I don't know if the story is historically accurate, but it did make for an interesting and enjoyable movie. I would have liked to have seen more aerial footage of the pilots flying their mustangs into battle. I really liked seeing photographs of the actual Tuskagee Airmen.
- The price paid for racism: Americans have paid a high price for their treatment of Blacks through the last century and a half. What has been lost in the worlds of business, the arts, medicine and science, can only be guessed at. Tuskegee Airmen gives some real, although narrow, insight into what was lost in WWII by a nation which continued to treat Blacks as an inferior people. Sadly, it wasn't just Americans who paid this price; the whole free world lost much because brave, highly skilled men were relegated to the backwaters of the war and not allowed to use their skills in the defense of freedom.
This movie is well acted. It makes no extravagant claims, speaks not in a loud demanding tone of voice and is all the more compelling because it simply lets the story tell itself.
The Tuskegee Airmen is a true story about real men who were ready and willing to help the fight against Germany and Japan, only to be rebuffed time and again, ignored by the buffoons sitting in the US Senate and Congress and at the top of the armed services.
That this band of pilots finally got into some form of combat is a testimony to their dedication and determination. This is a feel good/feel bad movie. I felt tremendous admiration at the courage and resilience these men showed, at the same time I felt a sense of despair in wondering how long the world will continue to waste talent and ability simply because of the color of someone's skin. Perhaps some progress is being made, in that such a story at least has been turned into a film that lays bare the stupidity and destructiveness of racism. I would recommend this film to anyone who wants some adventure and an interesting story mixed in with a history lesson.
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