Movie Review - Red Tails

Movie Review: Red Tails

By Rych McCain International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist

 Red Tails. 20^th Century Fox Pictures and Partnership Pictures. Starring Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Marcus T. Paulk, Ne-Yo and Tristan Wilds. Directed by Anthony Hemingway. Screenplay by Aaron McGruder. Story by John Ridllley based in part on John Holways book “Red Tails Black .Wings. Produced by Charles Floyd Johnson and Rick McCallum. Executive Producer George Lucas. 

     It is about time that the first Black fighter pilots to engage in combat during WWII had their day on the big screen. Hollywood didn’t want to make this movie but George Lucas did. The film centers on the famed 332^nd Fighter Group that trained at the Tuskegee Institute and were stationed at the segregated, all Black Ramitelli, Italy airbase where they established and broke many air combat records. They flew with valor and distinction despite the racist dumb stuff they had to put up with from their own side. This film deserve the support from not only Blacks but from all Americans because it weren’t for these chocolate pilots, there may have been a different outcome to WWII and one the U.S. wouldn’t have liked.   

****EXCELLENT (Ride In The Front, First Class!)

Top Gun "Lighting Joe" David Oyelowo (20th Century Fox Photo)

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