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Title: Good story, great fx
Review: I just watched this last week (Mar 2004). It took over an hour for the movie to give you the background before you got close to the battle scene. But the final hour was great, including a scene with a woman flying instructor being dumbfounded as her paltry biplane is taken over by a hundred zeros and bombers.The fx were great, even by 2004 standards. No fake CG stuff, you know all those planes on the tarmac were really blowing up. In todays movies, you just see a big fireball with some unrecognizable parts flying about. In this film, you saw propellers flying straight off the engine, unattached engines sliding into buildings, cowlings popping straight up, and fiery airplanes with no driver hitting other parked airplanes causing a chain reaction explosion. Plus they managed to capture the real sound when each part hit the pavement. I don't remember too many films that ever did that.The fx left me saying "Wow! I bet that was hard to set up!"
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