But oh God it's bad.
Chloe Grace Moretz is a great actor, but she couldn't save this.
Ten minutes into this I'd shaken my head and said "nope!" so many times I was worried I'd injure my neck badly if I sat through the whole movie.
I don't mind suspending my disbelief to enjoy a film, but this one expects you to hang your disbelief by the neck until it's dead.
I'm referring here to the climbing outside the plane while it's in flight scenes of course.
Speaking of being outside the plane, a B17 in flight is an awesome sight.
We never see that. Even dogfight scenes are shot from a point of view within the aircraft.
I know that airworthy B17s are hard to find, but there's some well done CGI work by Weta in this film so why they didn't do some external shots is a mystery. It would have made the film visually far more interesting.
Early in the film almost an hour goes by filmed entirely within the ball turret.
A lot of people have criticised this, but I think they get away with it.
Unfortunately the mysoginistic dialogue during most of that becomes tedious very quickly and is dragged on for far too long and is very badly written.
Apparently the script was extensively re-written. I'd hate to think how bad the original was, because the finished work is dreadful.
This film has plot holes a plenty, right from the odd disappearing ground crew on the runway at the start.
Chloe's character, who looks like she might be an undercover SOE agent on a secret mission, turns out to be fleeing domestic violence.
She turns out to be a WAAF officer with lots of hours flying "unarmed aircraft, single handed".
Despite this, she turns out to be an absolute expert ball-turret gunner and very skillful martial artist.
Oh yeah, that final fight scene with the creature (who's presence is never really explained). Seriously? It's got talons that can tear through steel but can't use them in a fight?
Let's not forget the soundtrack.
The overbearing, synth-based stuff was just annoying and really didn't suit the look of tone of the film.
Cheaper than doing the score with an orchestra I suppose though.
My favourite part of this movie was the archival WWII footage during the end credits.
Chloe Grace Moretz is a great actor, but she couldn't save this.
Ten minutes into this I'd shaken my head and said "nope!" so many times I was worried I'd injure my neck badly if I sat through the whole movie.
I don't mind suspending my disbelief to enjoy a film, but this one expects you to hang your disbelief by the neck until it's dead.
I'm referring here to the climbing outside the plane while it's in flight scenes of course.
Speaking of being outside the plane, a B17 in flight is an awesome sight.
We never see that. Even dogfight scenes are shot from a point of view within the aircraft.
I know that airworthy B17s are hard to find, but there's some well done CGI work by Weta in this film so why they didn't do some external shots is a mystery. It would have made the film visually far more interesting.
Early in the film almost an hour goes by filmed entirely within the ball turret.
A lot of people have criticised this, but I think they get away with it.
Unfortunately the mysoginistic dialogue during most of that becomes tedious very quickly and is dragged on for far too long and is very badly written.
Apparently the script was extensively re-written. I'd hate to think how bad the original was, because the finished work is dreadful.
This film has plot holes a plenty, right from the odd disappearing ground crew on the runway at the start.
Chloe's character, who looks like she might be an undercover SOE agent on a secret mission, turns out to be fleeing domestic violence.
She turns out to be a WAAF officer with lots of hours flying "unarmed aircraft, single handed".
Despite this, she turns out to be an absolute expert ball-turret gunner and very skillful martial artist.
Oh yeah, that final fight scene with the creature (who's presence is never really explained). Seriously? It's got talons that can tear through steel but can't use them in a fight?
Let's not forget the soundtrack.
The overbearing, synth-based stuff was just annoying and really didn't suit the look of tone of the film.
Cheaper than doing the score with an orchestra I suppose though.
My favourite part of this movie was the archival WWII footage during the end credits.