The Red Baron (2010)

Nice effects though.

Absolutely Fantastic

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

It's only a romantic movie, not an action one. Don't expect to see interesting action scenes. It's sad, because the potential was there but...they missed the target with this film. I was really disappointed after watching this movie. I would describe it as a scam. Not worthy to see, really.

A nice movie, not completely faithful to Manfred Von Richthofen's life I'm told, but very pleasant to watch. A fantastic production with beautiful scenes, great battlefields and very good actors: Matthias Schweighöfer over all.How could you become a hero without killing anyone? How can you win fear but not be able to cope with the death of those you love? How can you grow up as a Prussian gentleman and yet despise militaristic societies? These are the universal themes the movie deals with and I found it very interesting.The man himself really was and still is a legend by all means.

I'm a sucker for World War I aviation movies, be it "The Dawn Patrol", "The Blue Max", or "Hell's Angel"s,love the all. So I was looking forward to seeing this movie, but oh man, was I disappointed! Here is a synapsis of 90% of the movie: Close up of fighter pilot with war face,doing a primal scream; doesn't matter if he is German, British, French, or Klingon, same shot. Following this is a scene where the Baron's main squeeze is lecturing him (or the furniture) about the immorality of war.Next scene, war face and primal scream, followed by another lecture on the immorality of war until the movie thankfully ends abruptly. Save your time: watch instead some of the afore mentioned movies, made with real airplanes, real characters, and in some case actual World War I pilots!

I have a couple of thoughts on this film both positive and negative.The positives first reason.WW1 has been largely forgotten or remembered as being in the far distant past with little relevance.We are but 2 years from the 100 anniversary of the start of that war and many issue of that day remain now and plague us still.Any thing to remind us of that terrible war and the little that it resolved, is sorely needed and should be seen. The positive second reason is anything about "The Red Baron"The only hero of a enemy this country celebrates thanks to the "Peanuts" comic strip character of Snoopy as the Red Baron and a Christmas song commemorating that. Now the negatives.First,Matthias Schweighöfer as Manfred von Richthofen don't have the gravitas to carry out such historical character.he's badly overshadowed in the scenes with Lena Headey as Käte Otersdorf and even Joseph Fiennes as Capt. Roy Brown who would have been a better choice to play the baron. Now considering this is a movie and NOT a documentary,its not really important if there was a real romance between Kate and Manfred.It's enough that they knew each other and a dog was there and a character named Doring which I assume is meant to be Goring,the future Nazi leader of the German airfare in WW11,who historically later replaced him and the fact he was killed in the last German offensive of the war,the "Michael".History is told by the winners and facts get "tweaked"all the time.I see no bad tweaks when compared to the facts of depicted of the terrible war. Just judging it on its merits,the old planes and dog fights are great.The few ground battle scenes are horrific and the illusion of gallantry in the air is maintained as if there were two separate wars being fought. Sadly the casting of Matthias Schweighöfer as Manfred von Richthofen is the major downer for me.