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Americans volunteers become fighter pilots in France during WW1
Before the USA enters WW1, a young Texas cowboy (James Franco) joins the Lafayette Escadrille in France, a squadron of American fighter pilots. The volunteers are trained and soon experience the glory, anxieties and horrors that go with air combat.
Flyboys" (2006) was inspired by real events and comes in the tradition of similar WW1 aviation flicks The Blue Max (1966) and Aces High" (1976). Whilst not great like the exceptional Blue Max, the blockbuster-ish Flyboys is more compelling than the mundane Aces High, albeit a little marred by comic book storytelling (think Legends of the Fall). Its also significantly superior to the curiously unabsorbing The Red Baron...