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Overview
Release Date:
9 November 2005 (Belgium) moreTagline:
'Top Gun' for a new generation.Plot:
While in an international fair of exhibition of airplanes, a French Mirage 2000 of the last generation... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Surprisingly Good Action French Movie moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Benoît Magimel | ... | Capitaine Antoine "Walk'n" Marchelli | |
| Clovis Cornillac | ... | Capitaine Sébastien "Fahrenheit" Vallois | |
| Géraldine Pailhas | ... | Maelle Coste | |
| Alice Taglioni | ... | Capitaine Estelle 'Pitbull' Kass | |
| Philippe Torreton | ... | Bertrand | |
| Rey Reyes | ... | Capitaine Leslie 'Stardust' Hedget | |
| Peter Hudson | ... | Général Buchanan | |
| Jean-Baptiste Puech | ... | Ipod | |
| Christophe Reymond | ... | Stan | |
| Fiona Curzon | ... | Mrs Redgrave | |
| Jean-Michel Tinivelli | ... | Colonel Farje | |
| Frédéric van den Driessche | ... | Général Hardouin | |
| Eric Poulain | ... | Capitaine Klébér | |
| Pierre Poirot | ... | De Séze | |
| Jean-Yves Chilot | ... | Houdon |
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Argentina:102 min | France:102 minCountry:
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Finland:K-7 | Canada:PG | Germany:12 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:MG6 | Canada:13+ | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Argentina:13 | South Korea:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Hong Kong:I | France:UMOVIEmeter: 
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Working in cooperation with the French Air Force, director Gérard Pirès was able to get some of France's top gun pilots to do the aeronautic dogfights that were used in the film. Initially at the start of the shoot, the Air Force had some particular rules regarding the minimum distances the aircraft could be together or be above the ground, but by the end of principle photography, the daring pilots got permission to bend the normal safety rules, thus allowing them to do maneuvers normally never seen (or possible) outside of actual combat. By the final days of filming, the initial minimum distance the pilots could fly above the ground (500 feet) had dropped to a tiny 10 feet, and the distance between the planes in the air (a varying range, usually of several hundred feet) had been reduced to a minuscule 3 feet, thus allowing some amazing shots that could otherwise never have been pulled off. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: The Royal Australian Air Force officer is introduced as General Hudson. The RAAF doesn't have army ranks. It has ranks like the British RAF so he should have been called Air Chief Marshall Hudson. Also his uniform was not one from the RAAF. moreFAQ
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While in an international fair of exhibition of airplanes, a French Mirage 2000 of the last generation vanishes and pilots Antoine "Walk'n" Marchelli (Benoît Magimel) and Sebastian "Fahrenheit" Vallois (Clovis Cornillac) are assigned to locate the plane that is flying in a hiding position below a commercial airplane. The pilots order the Mirage to return to the base, but the Mirage attacks Fahrenheit instead, and Walk'n immediately shots the Mirage saving his partner. However, the evidences are forged by the leader of a force called "Special Missions" and Walk'n is falsely accused of not following the orders and discharged from the air force. Blacklisted in the commercial flight companies, Walk'n and Fahrenheit are pressed to join the Special Missions team, where they disclose betrayals in a net of espionage.
"Sky Fighters" is a surprisingly good action French movie, a sort of "Top Guns" of the Twentieth-First Century. The cinematography is spectacular, with impressive air flight sequences and the story is full of action, betrayal and espionage with many twists. In the end, this movie is a great entertainment. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Os Cavaleiros do Ar" ("The Air Knights")