George Lucas's Red Tails is finally here!  Posted by David Konow
Red Tails, which George Lucas has promised will be his last film
before retiring, is finally here. The verdict?   Probably
similar to what many feel about the Star Wars films: great
action in the skies, but with some of the human aspect lacking.
George Lucas's Red Tails is finally here!The first review of Red
Tails I came across was from veteran film critic Todd McCarthy
in the Hollywood Reporter, who believes the movie "flies only
when it's off the ground. The experience of black American
aviators in World War II gets a whitewash in Red Tails."  It's
definitely a very important story, but McCarthy writes, that
"every character here is so squeaky-clean, and the prejudice as
depicted is so toothless and easily overcome, that the film
feels like a gingerly fantasy version of what, in real life, was
an exceptional example of resilient trail-blazing."  Similarly,
the HuffPo feels the film is "a hackneyed and weirdly context-
less story that does [t