Red Tails

Action, War
4 stars
Good movie based on the African American fighter pilots of WWII in the Tuskegee training program. The characters in the film are fictional but the Tuskegee training program was real and I’m glad that the men in the program are honored through this film. Terrence Howard stars as the colonel, Cuba Gooding (who looks funny holding a pipe in his teeth) plays the major, along with Nate Parker and David Oyelowo as the primary pilots featured in the film. Oyelowo is the daredevil, much like Tom Cruise’s character in Top Gun, and Parker plays his friend and superior who has a drinking problem. Lots of action in the air. Good movie.