it is not exactly the expected historical film. maybe a documentary. far by patriotic enthusiasm - so familiar from American films- , without emotional twists - the tone is almost blank, giving the portrait of a legendary German hero in precise lines. a cold sketch. about the Red Baron and his comrades, his girl friend, humor and passion for its duty. the historical accuracy is far to be the best point but the film gives a realistic portrait . and this is a real precious virtue.

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.

This movie turns Manfred von Richtofen into an Abercrombie & Fitch model, prancing around in expensive scarves and dashing hats, batting his feminine eyes and pouting boyishly. The love story is straight out of a soap opera -- she emerging from his combat tent, disheveled, as he climbs into the cockpit, perfectly coiffed for battle.The CGI combat scenes are enjoyable to some extent for a WWI aviation enthusiast like myself, but at the end of the day they are not in the same league whatsoever with the 1930 movie Hell's Angels, so you must concede that in 80-odd years we have only gone backwards in that department.Most disappointing about this film are the gross liberties taken with history. While a bit of fudging is to be expected, this movie simply pays no heed to actual events, reshaping every persona and story to suit its inane melodramatic sensibilities. The irony is that the real history is far more interesting and captivating than what the B-team screenwriters have come up with here. Some day they will make a better movie out of the raw historical facts being cast aside here, and I hope I live to see it.

The movie's main problem is that it moves very slowly, with long scenes of exposition between the dogfights...The thing that got me worked up the most, when Roy Brown and Richtofen have a drink in No Man's Land, and Brown says "You should hook up with that nurse, she has the hots for you." So why is a Canadian in 1916 using 21st century American slang? Did the writers not know what the equivalent slang of that period would be, or did they just assume we wouldn't know what that means.Oh, yeah, and Brown and Richtofen having a friendly drink. Ironic because Brown would eventually kill Richtofen. Or not. (He was actually killed by ground fire, but I guess having a drink with an Aussie gunner wouldn't have the same effect.) Similarly, the story rewrites Richtofen as a humane pacifist who told his pilot to target planes, not pilots. In reality, he did the opposite, and his own high kill rate was due to his ability to kill pilots at long range as a sniper.Oh, and then the ultimate burn. WE DON'T SEE HIS FINAL DOGFIGHT!!!! I just dropped my rating to a four based on that!