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Air Strike
2018 127 min China, United States of America R 18+
★3.9
Action, Drama, War, History
Director: Xiao Feng
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Description
An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly war planes against the Japanese during World War II.
Budget:
$65M
Starring
Ye Liu
Actor
Bruce Willis
Actor
Song Seung-heon
Actor
Key opinion
Air Strike is a disastrously disjointed war film marred by severe production issues, including a botched re-edit and problematic visual effects. The reliance on big-name Hollywood stars feels forced and hollow, failing to compensate for a clumsy narrative and tonally inconsistent storytelling.
| Production | The visual effects are consistently substandard, resembling dated video-game renders rather than cinematic war sequences. | |
| Acting | Hollywood stars Bruce Willis and Adrien Brody appear miscast or disengaged, serving primarily as a marketing draw rather than providing depth to the narrative. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay suffers from a disjointed narrative structure that fails to balance its disparate war, espionage, and civilian storylines. | |
| Humor | The film attempts to balance historical drama with comic relief, but the forced humor feels inappropriate and undermines the gravity of the wartime setting. |