"Red Baron"casts war hero in romantic light - Mar 20, 2010 - 5:48 pm

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - This hagiographic movie portrait of Germany's World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen better known to posterity and followers of Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strip as the "Red Baron" is most impressive while bi- and tri-planes dodge and shoot at each other in the sky. On the ground the film falls pretty flat. Rather than examining the cult of hero worship that sprang up around Richthofen and his "Flying Circus" writer-director Nikolai Muellerschoen instead indulges in the romance of aerial combat while celebrating its gallant young poster boy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62I08320100319

Mehar Gill