YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

LouAbbott As a child, TV I watched "Air Force" and other war films some consider WW II "propaganda" on TV. As a young man, after a night of carousing, I'd come stumbling home and, if a channel were showing these types of films, I'd watch them on the Late, Late Show. Now, I watch these films for the excellent acting, action, and for their historical content significance as "propaganda" films during the dark part of WWII for the US and its allies. When it seemed as if Japan and Germany were conquering the world. And I could also enjoy the action and danger vicariously.Don't kid yourself that Hollywood no longer makes "propaganda" films. They are making them now more than ever. The films are just a different type of "propaganda".

DKosty123 Starting with the Lincoln Quote from the Gettysburg Address through the Rah Rah ending, this war movie perfectly reflects the time it is made. These were the dark times when the Pearl Harbor Attack happened. It is the equal to 9/11/2001 in it's time.This movie is about rallying the troops by telling the story of the B-17 Mary-Ann, which starts with the plane flying into Pearl Harbor after the attack all the way to the Philippines. It is quite a story as the tragic consequences of the start of the war are worked into the story.The mood of war propaganda is captured perfectly. In fact, I be the entire movie had to be approved by every government censor of the era. The special effects are top notch and the final battle sequence where it appears half of the Japanese Navy is sunk is pure propaganda. Still, Warner Brothers is successful here packaging the story to the mass audience at the time. The action is worth the admission even if the story is lacking due to the censors.

MovieMan66 The emotional content of the subject matter--WW2 post-bombing of Pearl Harbor seems to be the major reason for high ratings for 'Air Force'. A very slow moving and boring movie with some excellent technical and special effects and photography. The story line is very sparse and the actors seem to be groping around for depth in their rather one-dimensional characters. Oddly, it was nominated for, but didn't get, an Oscar for Best Writing and Original Screenplay. This aberration can be understood as being a tip of the hat to the spirit of the times.Air Force won an Oscar for best editing in 1944 beating other nominees Casablanca, Five Graves to Cairo, For Whom the Bell Tolls and the Song of Bernadette. This was a consolation prize for a movie that could not be ignored but didn't quite make the grade. Excluding Five Graves to Cairo, the 3 other nominees in the best editing category got Oscars in other categories. Other films nominated for Oscars in 1944 are in an entirely different class. Casablanca got the best film Oscar, and others in the running for Best Picture were Heaven Can't Wait, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Ox-Bow Incident, Phantom of the Opera, Madam Curie. These are giants of the screen. No matter how high it flies in the ratings, Air Force doesn't quite measure up either in the company of these other films or on a comparative or stand-alone basis.

LeroyBrown-2 Back when I was a kid one of the local station in my town would show this movie frequently. My brothers and I would watch it every time we can and it became a personal favorite. As the station grew more prosperous and moved on to other things, this movie disappeared along with dozens of old movies. The innocence of childhood made war movies enjoyable. Of course we all know now the old cliché "War is Hell". Anyway, of all the war movies that I enjoyed in my childhood this one was special. It inspired me to try and get into the air force, (4F). The movie of course is a wartime propaganda made to boost morale of our nation. There are dozens like these made during that time but I think this is one of the best. The movie begins with the flight crew of the B-17 bomber the "Mary Ann' on a routine flight from San Francisco to Honolulu on the evening of December 6, 1941. During the flight we get to meet the crew and they are just the standard WWII crew in any movie. The New York cabbie ("It ain't New York once you cross the Brooklyn bridge."), the farm boy, the old vet who would fight anybody who demeans the air corp and the outcast.The dialog for the most part isn't very original, but what Howard Hawks knew then was that dialogs in on itself can be entertaining specially if they are delivered in his usual Rat-tat-tat style. Mr Hawks know how to make any movie entertaining, even when the crew were just listening to the radio it was very entertaining. But the movie was a war propaganda and we soon plunge into the attack on "Pearl Harbor", the combat scenes in this movie are some of the best I've seen in movies from that era. They're very exciting and fast paced as a matter of fact I think some of the scenes when they were airborne and fighting off the enemies might have inspired the scenes in "Star Wars" when the 'Millenium Falcon' was under attack.The special effects on this film garnered it an Oscar nomination (one of four the film got it won best editing) and it's pretty decent for the 1940s. The miniatures are obvious now, specially if compared to some of the latest CGIs, nevertheless it's very well done. Although I still don't know if the shot over the Golden Gate bride was real or not.Yes the movie had a racist tone and yes it has a rah-rah feel to it. But one must remember the times, the United States was attacked because our transgression against the Japanese was we cut off supply to them after they invaded China and Manchuria (Korea) and slaughtered hundreds of thousand innocent civilian. The movie also has a problem with it's time line, from the bombing of Pearl Harbor, to the last stand at Wake island to the evacuation from Manila to the Battle of Coral Sea? Coral sea took place five months after Pearl Harbor. Nevertheless it's a very good film and will remain a favorite of mine for a long time.