djanvk-1
This is a watchable WW2 film, not bad at all, like said in other reviews there are some issues where you can tell they are in front of a green screen. The acting is acceptable and the film has less action than I expected but was still entertaining. One minor gripe I have with this film is the look of the colors, they were just to bright and clean. These soldiers were in the middle of the desert and everything was brightly colored, there should be sand everywhere and clothing dingy along with the planes themselves, they looked just to new to be continuously worked on and repaired. Overall I liked it, maybe some of it is because I am currently reading a book on WW2 bombers which is why I did lean towards watching this film.
kmsoars
I have to agree with one of the previous comments. While this movie doesn't have the budget and panache of larger films it kept to the spirit of bomber groups operating out of North Africa. And, I easily preferred this to well know titles such as Red Tails or Memphis Belle. The computer artists need to be congratulated because for not having real planes through most of it I thought all completely was believable. The key to a movie is not so much how much money you throw at it, but how good the story is. I found myself becoming one with the crew of the Lucky Lass. It is definitely worth a watch and I won't hesitate to watch it again. Well written, well acted and enjoyable. Mission accomplished!
aherb62-86-372442
This movie was a pleasant surprise. The CG of the air combat action was really well done. Story line was a little thin, but fair for a WWII movie, Better than most movies made in the 40's and 50's.It showed what those men in the Air force had to contend with, the flack you could walk on, the fighter planes and mechanical problems which caused so many problems. These were and still are the terrors of air war.The use of alcohol by all the members of the aircraft crew seemed excessive to me. But was probably a true coping outlet that made life bearable with such dreadful losses during the air war of WW II. It has been estimated that the losses of all the airmen in the nations in that conflict exceeded 250,000 men. Good movie on Netflix.
Theo Robertson
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the enduring icons from the second world war . Its sister aircraft the B-24 Liberator was considered a better aircraft due to having a slightly larger bomb load , having a slightly better range and being built in larger numbers and yet it's the B-17 that's much better remembered as the iconic American bomber of WW2 . Possibly this is down to it being a popular aircraft with its crew . The B-17 could absorb an unbelievable amount of punishment and unlike say the British Lancaster bomber it was a relatively easy aircraft to exit from if the crew had to bail out This straight to DVD movie titled FORTRESS is inspired by true events and does try to do something different with the war genre by set in North Africa where the American Army Air Corps are flying missions over Italy . It's a quickly forgotten fact from history that there were more Italian civilians killed by allied air raids than there were Britons killed by Luftwaffe air raids so at least this film is trying to do something slightly different via its setting The film then decides not to make the most of things . Yhe characters are caricatures of those cheeky Yanks who are always on the make and are getting up to jobs on the side such as starting a bootleg business on distilling air fuel in to alcoholic hooch . I found it difficult to buy in to the characters here as being anything more than characters in a movie The flying sequences themselves are equally unconvincing and give the impression that they were created via computer software . That is because they are created via CGI and reminded me of the equally unconvincing scenes seen in the 2006 World War One aviation film FLYBOYS . That said FORTRESS is a straight to DVD war film while FLYBOYS was a major big budget cinema release so I guess the audience should be slightly more forgiving towards FORTRESS which incidentally might confuse the audience in to thinking they're going to be watching a prison film down to the title
AD
