This movie is another item of my December Watchlist but I didn’t have the time to watch it back then.
This movie starrs Joe Jonas, Jonathan Majors (“Loki”), Glen Powell (“Top Gun: Maverick”), Christina Jackson (“Bull”), Boone Platt (“Black Adam”), just to name a few.
This movie was directed by J.D. Dillard
This movie was released on November 23rd 2022.
This movie was debuted at the “Toronto International Film Festival” and at the “Newport Beach International Film Festival”.
This movie was rated PG-13 for language, war action, violence, smoking and frightening imagery.
This movie is an Action/Drama/War.
Onto the premise: A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy’s most celebrated wingmen.
Devotion is paced like a documentary rather than a movie.
The plot was good, touching.It isn’t a plot so much as a portrait of characters who happened to be involved in the Korean War.
It isn’t until about halfway through the movie that any action is seen, and in the meantime we get a LOT of downtime to examine the relationships between Jesse and his family/Jesse and his aviators.
These sequences are very often touching and compelling, providing profoundly satisfying insights into the dichotomy of loneliness and brotherhood that war offers.
This-along with the movie’s excellent acting, capable visual direction, and moving musical score-makes Devotion a frequently captivating experience.
But because the story doesn’t have a sense of momentum and cause/effect between sequences, it’s far more forgettable than the filmmakers wished for it to be….
Overall, I really enjoyed this movie, I now understand why it debuted at so many film festivals. Devotion is an epically inspirational, heartbreaking and high stakes, action-packed war movie based on actual events.
It’s an emotional roller coaster that will fly you high into the sky, see what I did here, and then crash you down into the ground.
Devotion is based on the inspiring true story of the first African American aviator in the U. S. Navy.
This movie is based on the New York Times bestselling book of the same name, written by Adam Makos. The cinematography is profoundly marvelous.
The message of Devotion is to never give up, even when the odds are against you. This movie has violence, war and death, as well as tobacco and alcohol consumption. It also has profanity.
This movie was definitely worth a watch.
Did you know? The US Navy named a ship in honor of Ensign Jesse L. Brown, the USS Jesse L. Brown FF1089. It was Knox Class, commissioned 17 Feb 1973. Decommissioned 27 July 1994.
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