Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

jwsanfrancisco i especially like these period films about the war in the air. I thought this war film was in the same class as the Mathew Modine B-17 pic,'MEMPHIS BELLE'. Particularly, memorable was the segment, where the British & American pilots are resting in a debriefing room when the music on the radio is interrupted by a German propaganda speech. This is a historical fact, that, like the 'TOkyo Rose' radio chats that were meant to demoralize the U.S.soldiers(also U.S.naval forces) in the Pacific,'Lord HAW-HAW' was a concerted effort by German intelligence to broadcast propaganda to hurt the American/allied air campaign of WWII. (Unbeknownst to the allies, the Germans had broken the allies 'ultra' code, allowing them priceless intelligence regarding B-17 bombing runs in Europe) . ALthough, I may be mistaken('ultra' intercepts provided the Nazis only valuable intelligence information about 8th army tactical moves in the North African Campaign(1040-1943?)All in all, a great film,using actual historical facts....

zardoz-13 "Mosquito Squadron" director Boris Sagal and scenarist Donald S. Sanford reteamed for this lackluster World War II aerial thriller about the historic 1000 plane raid over Nazi-occupied Germany. Anybody who remembers how much fuss the British raised over "U-571" because the Americans took credit for capturing a piece of Nazi technology can only imagine how much umbrage the Brits should have taken over this movie. "Rat Patrol" star Christopher George plays a tough-as-nails U.S.AF.F. colonel who champions a 1000 plane raid despite all the problems such a massive air strike would entail. Actually, the Royal Air Force launched this raid first. Indeed, Sagal and Sanford drew their story from a fantastic history book by author Ralph Barker that was called "The Thousand Plane Raid." Aside from a number of American televisions headed up by George and J.D. Cannon, this air force mission movie is too lightweight to be memorable. The story is told from the perspective of Christopher George's commander and a British RAF officer who has been reassigned to George to give the Yanks a heads-up on fighting Germany fighter pilots.

gordon-287 This is a poor man's "Twelve O'Clock High". Even some of the characters track: a pushy commanding officer with an idea and a leadership problem, an adjutant (only a woman this time to try to appeal to the female audience). There is even an attitude-changing event (getting wounded) during the last raid that tries to turn him into more of a likable human being. However, there was one statement he made during a briefing that turned out to be very accurate in real life. During one briefing on his idea of a 1,000 plane raid, the British were insisting on a night raid, the American Colonel Brandon said, "If the Germans couldn't bomb the British into submission, what makes us think we can do it to them?"

philphoto Amusing piece of waffle with a brief acknowledgement that the UK actually did fight from their home country, and in fact did mount the first 1000 bomber raid on Germany. Throw in a stereo typical RAF upper class twit to teach the Yanks Fighter Tactics.. I wish they wouldn't assume all RAF fighter Pilots were like that.. Many were Sergeant Pilots and my 86 year old Neighbour, A Spitfire Pilot with 8 kills to his Credit speaks broad Geordie (To our American Pals a Dialect found in the Newcastle area of North East England which can hardly be called upper class.) Still the footage of the B17s was brilliant and did these wonderful Planes credit ) There were several correct statements , particularly that night Bombing carried out by the RAF in the early days was terribly inaccurate, at least until 'Gee' and 'Oboe'(Radio position systems) came into service. Remember that the Luftwaffe switched to night bombing of British Cities during 1940-1941 because of their Losses. However a good piece of escapism anyway,with many inaccuracies, but someone did at least attempt some Historic research...