Sky Fighters (2005)

Perfect cast and a good story

The first must-see film of the year.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Man, I don't even know what to say. Okay, I'll say it. This is probably the worst movie that currently exists. It is the Rebecca Black of movies. In fact, I registered for IMDb just because I felt the need to say so. The plot is asinine, the dialogue is painfully trite... Which makes for what actually ends up being a hilarious viewing experience. For example, there's this... (After a scene in a gym where the new girl, the badass American female pilot, is wearing shorts with her entire butt hanging out while doing her workout as the guys gawk.)Bro-ey pilot dude: Where did you learn how to do stretches like that? American pilotess: Do you know how American girls pay for their education? Bro-ey pilot dude: There's this party coming up... Would you perform? American pilotess: I only do that for money.So you think the badass she-pilot is messing with the dumb jock because she's smarter than him, right? WRONG. Cut to the next scene. She's straddled on a fake plane wearing her uniform and heels, as all the pilots at the party are hollering, and she she proceeds to strip for all her new French colleagues... Yup, great way to gain respect in an environment where you're new, from a different country, and repeatedly suffer serious gender-based discrimination. Hilarious!The movie is the best bad movie I've ever seen.

This movie is a masterpiece in its genre. Far better than Top Gun but less impressive than Pearl Harbor. The first asset of this movie is without any doubt the flights scenes which are truly awesome. Taken from pods attached to the real planes, it gives a feeling of realism and freedom you've never seen anywhere else. Of course, The actors are not piloting the jets: The French Air force was in charge of shooting the flight scenes alongside with Gerard Pirès, who is a real fan of aviation. So don't be surprised if the jets are the real stars of the movie: it's on purpose!The second asset is the soundtrack who really fits well the scenes. It gives a sensation of freedom and lightness during some soft scenes and are very bouncy during dogfights.Unfortunately there are some goofs too. The action side is very present, too much present and the story becomes too much weird because of that. 9/11 was still in everyone's head in 2004 (it still is today) and we were all afraid of what Al Qaeda was capable of. But Imagine that: Stealing a Mirage, using it for a terrorist strike in Paris??? Too much awkward for me!I want to clarify something: Alice Taglioni is not playing an American pilot. The other girl is American. Taglioni's character is a french pilot who was in love with Marchelli (Benoit Magimel) and joins the squadron to become an instructor in Salon De Provence (French Air Force school). So, in conclusion, visually its perfect but the scenario's writers need to improve themselves.

So far, i was thinking that the epitome of stupidity on movies about flying was the kind of movies trying to be''Top Gun'', but this one surpass everything i have seen so far about this. The flight sequences (even if it was real flight) goes nowhere, are done in short takes, without any respect for what they call the storyline. This storyline is so simplistic that it is of no value to listen to it, and can easily be ''listened'' with the sound of. The ''actors'' are acting as if they are not able to remember their lines even if the story is so simple that you know from the beginning where it will lead. Poor scenario, with superfluous scenes absolutely not necessary to the movie but permitting to pass time so it could go for a movie of 1.5 hour, which would not have been if these scenes where cut. Overall, a plain disaster. I highly recommend that you don't see it

This was one of the worst movies I have seen it a long time. The flight scenes are cool but the dialog and plot are terrible. The ending sucks as well. I can only hope it must have been better in french otherwise the other reviewers here are clueless. Top Gun was 1000x better then this cheesy movie. The DVD "Sky Fighters" even defaults to English DD2.0. It should default to the DD6.0 sound track. This is the first DVD I have seen that defaults to a stereo sound track when the multi-speaker sound track is available. You would have to be a big fan of military aircraft to forgive the films short comings. The sound effects of the film was good though.