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Flyboys
Directed by
Tony Bill
PG-13
2006
2h 18m
Drama
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Romance
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6.5
34%
66%
6.5
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The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
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Cast of Flyboys
James Franco
Blaine Rawlings
David Ellison
Eddie Beagle
Jean Reno
Capt. Thenault
Philip Winchester
William Jensen
Todd Boyce
Mr. Jensen
Mac McDonald
Sheriff Detweiller
Abdul Salis
Eugene Skinner
Karen Ford
Mrs. Jensen
Scott Hazell
Cinema Usher
Ruth Bradley
Laura
Tim Pigott-Smith
Mr. Lowry
Tyler Labine
Briggs Lowry
Gail Downey
Mrs. Lowry
Augustin Legrand
L.T. Giroux
Keith McErlean
Vernon Toddman
Jennifer Decker
Lucienne
Lex Shrapnel
Grant
Martin Henderson
Reed Cassidy
Kate Robbins
Clarise
Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Skinner's Trainer
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Flyboys Ratings & Reviews
Kold
May 16, 2025
Aerial combat scenes fell flat. Reminded me of watching kids on mechanical horses you pay for outside of stores. The whole movie felt like a bare framework on what story structure should look like while having no real meat at all.
UGO
Brian Tallerico
Flyboys doesn't just use cliches - it wallows in them, feeling more like a film based on old war movies than actual history.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
While director Bill nails the sheer spectacle of squads of SPADs dovetailing in flames into the wide blue yonder, the earthbound action (much as it was in another sputtering epic, Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor) is strictly laissez-faire.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Aafter a while -- there must be six major fights against unending numbers of German planes -- it feels like special effects run amok.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Why make such a corny and incredibly predictable film?
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
The painstaking authenticity and appealing cast of Flyboys can't overcome the cloyingly formulaic nature of its story.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Besides some fine dogfight sequences, it often feels threadbare, just an exercise in recycling.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Flyboys has computer imaging and a fleet of vintage aircraft on its side, but it remains considerably less convincing than Wings (1927), and less exciting.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The computer-generated flying effects are the only reason to see the movie, but at some point somebody left the computer on too long, so it went ahead and spat out the script.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
It's as if director Tony Bill simply fished out a mothballed script from 1947 and filmed it without updating it for contemporary audiences.
Houston Chronicle
Amy Biancolli
This is spectacle in the grand old style, a bygone shot of adrenaline and grace.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Sometimes corn works. Sometimes it doesn't. Flyboys flops.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
A good documentary might have been a far more interesting film to make.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
If the current legroom in economy class doesn't make you resent the birth of the Wright Brothers, Flyboys certainly will. Like a flight from New York to Los Angeles, it's bad and it's long.
Dallas Morning News
Mario Tarradell
When Flyboys finally ends, a too-long 139 minutes later, there's a sense of emptiness, perhaps even disgust.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The aerial dogfights are thrilling, but the script seems to have been written by Snoopy.
Chicago Sun-Times
Bill Zwecker
Those amazing young heroes from the second decade of the last century -- our first true fighter pilots -- deserve so much more than what's served up in this very disappointing attempt.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The movie's straightforward and ingratiating, and as pretty-boy history lessons go, it's a lot less obnoxious than Pearl Harbor.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
But I do like this movie, at times very much so.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Despite the brutal dogfights and inevitable deaths, there's little gravity or resonance.
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