A standout at the 2008 Daytona Beach Film Festival, ''The Flyboys'' deserves to be seen.
Here's the review from Film Critic Jeff Farance:
''The Flyboys'' 5 (of 5 stars)
This is the sort of discovery that film festivals live for. As do festival audiences.
To say it's a family film is to take nothing away from its maturity, its urgency and its adventure as two boys with a love of all things airborne become entwined in a mob plot to rip off a casino's cash haul by crashing the plane carrying it and its guards.
A sprinkling of familiar faces (Stephen Baldwin, Tom Sizemore, Robert Costanzo) accent the fine performances by stars Jesse James and Reiley McClendon.
But what's amazing is the total professionalism, including some palm-sweat-inducing aerial acrobatics and ground chase scenes, along with outstanding special effects. ''The Flyboys'' simply soars, and takes its audience along into the clouds for a breathtaking ride.