seriously and this movie be just a piece of expensive trash . only thing really worth look be probably the beautiful scene of nature and nice place and people around . photography be simply gorgeous . but wasn not this movie about war . well and computer generate war and without real dialogue or matter to discuss and idea to present and etc . just 3d model and character suitable for girly sunday soap opera and not hard boil war movie . even if it try simply to be digital form of art and nothing else ( i wouldn not call this a thriller or typical war movie of any kind ) and it fail also . i would not start with factual error and theyre clear to anyone ever open history book . but the cgi . it horrible . first and the cgi scene do not look that good at all . for a 2006 movie and they seem to use technology from year 2000 or so . the plane model do not have really any complex shading or any other modern light simulation apply and so everything look even bad than a typical pc video game from same year . there also heavily noticeable lack of realistic shadow . but this be not the bad part . plane be extremely overpowered and feel like something man hasn not build yet . like superb aero acrobatic device even our modern technology can not do . it look nice and but hey and wasn not this movie about wwi . shouldn not those . thing be a piece of wood and cloth with a small engine apply . simply motorized kite . but even that total mess up in cgi and directing department isn not the bad part . the bad question be . where physic . if cgi department would have record a demo from early 1994 flight simulator and used movement capture of game plane for one see in movie and they would get at least half of it believable . but in this movie and plane float . they have no mass or friction and no speed nor gravity . and in era of motorize kite and tiny amount of speed and angle define by physic law be what really decide who win the dogfight . it be all about pilot playing on the edge of plane capability and millisecond and law on nature to gain this tiny and almost invisible advantage over enemy . no pilot have 360 degree freedom in 3 dimension at constant speed . in this movie and it doesn not matter if pilot rise or drop plane and it doesn not low or raise his speed a bit . and there a terribly stupid scene with protagonist gun jam while enemy be at gunpoint . just look at this represent when enemy notice the problem and he speed up and fly away . why in the hell be he fly at gunpoint until then . weren not german plane much faster and more maneuverable . doesn not every damn historical air battle related book describe this . i would not even start with romance and drama portion from the movie . the unbelievable fight ( to any sane man ) and pretty actor already define the target group of the movie represent early teenage girl . so it need by default and even if it suck in this movie . but why be the chosen topic war and why not skip all that lousy plane thing and just make another movie about nice nature and love . and why and oh why do director do strange attempt at discuss something serious and like racism and social class and mourn and war refugee and etc . either one of them . fail miserably . it simply difficult to blame a movie for be bad if it actually idiots fault who make it .