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Curiously unabsorbing account of the Red Baron
The exceptional career of the ace-of-aces, Manfred Von Richthofen, is chronicled up to his death at 25 years-of-age on April 21, 1918.
The Red Baron" (2008) comes in the tradition of similar WW1 fighter pilot flicks The Blue Max (1966), Aces High" (1976) and Flyboys (2006). The Blue Max is an extraordinary melancholic epic while the realistic Aces High is good, but one-dimensionally mundane. The blockbuster-ish Flyboys is entertaining, but marred by comic book storytelling (think Legends of the Fall). Does The Red Baron match or surpass any of these movies? Unfortunately, no.
Everything is here for a quality film of this sort, but something about the storytelling makes for a cu...