Director Mario Van Peebles
Staring Cam Gigandet, Rachael Leigh Cook, Mario Van Peebles
Rated M
Score 2/6

Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the skies to reclaim his military and personal honor.

Possibly the only kind of impressive thing about this movie was the Red Sky Anthem and the fact that it gave me lesson number 27.
The characters for Red Sky where based on the characters from the 2007 Kerosene Cowboys: Manning the Spare by Randy Arrington, and for the record no, I have not read the book.
I’m not overly familiar with Mario Van Peebles’ work as a director and I would like to think that he is capable of directing a decent movie, but this is far from being a decent movie when it fact is barely watchable in places. It would be easy to compare or more accurately described this as being “Top Gun–style pic” especially if you are going by the fact that both movies feature fighter jets. Red Sky should not be mentioned in the same breath as Top Gun for the simple reason that Van Peebles had no clue in how to pace his movie properly. The acting wasn’t terrible but then again it wasn’t that noteworthy either I also that it was an interesting touch on the part of the filmmakers to have more than a few of the pilots come across as if they received their aerial combat training from Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy.