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Rating:  - Good World War I Movie
While not strictly accurate to history this is an excellent movie of a subject that deserves more attention than it gets - namely World War I. The film is well paced and does agood job handling the action, emotion and psychological trauma of this massive event. A good choice for anyone interested in WW I, action or war films in general.
Rating: - Good story
I ordered this when looking for the new German movie, "The Red Baron" and really enjoyed it. Good photography in my opinion and well done flying scenes.
Rating:  - Von Richtofen & Brown
This movie was so full of incorrect facts that we just shut it off and decided that the money spent on it was a total waste as was the time spent watching it. Just a little research would have made a half way credible movie instead of a complete farce.
Rating:  - Another Might Have Been
What a shame. Life and death combat in gasoline powered kites, heroic personalities and nostalgia of a dramatic time were rendered uninteresting by wooden performances and mediocre costuming. See The Blue Max instead. Its German pilots are also all inaccurately kitted out in Uhlan uniforms but at least its story is more compelling and the acting is better. And Usula Andress is not hard to watch either. Someday maybe HBO will do this right. Until then, it's pretty much these two movies and "Dawn Patrol".
Rating: - Good depiction of WW1 air war
For the war buff only. Outstanding flying scenes, even if some of the aircraft types are wrong. John Phillip Law is good as Von Richtofen, though too tall. The Baron was a small man. Don Stroud portrays Roy Brown as sort of a cowboy. Brown was an officer and a gentleman. American actors don't play Canadians well. If you like the flying, I highly recommend Howard Hughes' film 'Hell's Angels' (1930). As real as it gets!
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