Masters of the Air (2024)

Drama, War & Politics

78^%

User
Score

7.8/10

Overview

During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.

John Orloff

Creator

Top Billed Cast

Austin Butler

Maj. Gale 'Buck' Cleven

Callum Turner

Maj. John 'Bucky' Egan

Anthony Boyle

Lt./Cpt./Maj. Harry Crosby

Nate Mann

Lt./Cpt./Maj. Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal

Stephen Campbell Moore

Maj. 'Red' Bowman

Matt Gavan

Lt. Charles Cruikshank

Jonas Moore

Lt. Frank Murphy

Darragh Cowley

Graham

David Shields

Cpt. Everett Blakely

Ben Radcliffe

Lt. John Brady, Cpt. John Brady

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Reviews

A review by MovieGuys

Written on January 28, 2024

Masters of the Air quickly becomes mired in its own cliched sentimentalism.

Back slapping jokery characterisations are the norm. Airmen who are at the same time overconfident but somehow, inexplicably wise. Its unconvincing, as is the general sense of longing, for a rose coloured vision of a war time past, that never existed.

Growing up I knew a man who fought in WWII and for a time had th...

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A review by Skatman

Written on February 4, 2024

Was really hoping for a factually accurate representation of Air Combat in WW2, but what I was presented with (and in fairness I'm only 2 episodes in, so it might improve) is a massive bunch of revisionist, pro-American, anti-English/British nonsense that spends more time portraying squadrons, for want of a better word, "fannying around" than actually flying.

The performance of most of the acto...

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