Red Tails: good... enough

I was definitely one of those people who jumped on the pro-black stories band wagon (similar to the rationale I used to see the Help).  And given that it was a pseudo-war movie, I figured it would naturally lend itself to drama beyond issues of race.  I was wrong.  From the angry one to the wise-crackin' southern one, we have every one-dimensional black man you can find.  The film is also chock-full of unbelievable death-defying acts (... not in a good way), that both undermine the spirit of the film and belittle the struggle of the soldiers.  And it felt soooo long.  So while it ends with a triumphant victory for the novel and groundbreaking endeavor of the Tuskegee program, the charactured journey presented in the film left it wanting.
Verdict: A Nice-to-have (Amazon Prime)