Memphis BelleShowy and shallow Second World War drama from Brit director Caton-Jones. The crew of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 bomber, have to make one final bombing raid over Europe before they complete their 25th mission and are able to return home. They are given the target of a Nazi supply factory in Bremen, which proves to be a precarious task. Crammed with every dumb war-movie cliché in the book, this is silly and extravagant nonsense. The cast seems to be made up of underachieving actors, and the least convincing (Zane, Connick Jr) are allowed to showboat, irritatingly, while the rest are merely uninspired.
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