At its worst, this movie is simply American military propaganda. At its best, it's really, really good American military propaganda.Dogfights of the Future is a history channel documentary about the future of air combat. As it repeatedly tells you, it is based on diagnostic test about hypothetical future combat scenarios. It explores future air combat situations with awesome planes and technology. Is it accurate? Maybe. Is it awesome? Hell yeah!
It is pretty interesting, albeit biased and a bit far-fetched. You shouldn't go into this thinking that this is what the future is going to be like. It's a rough estimate at best, so don't take it too seriously. The real enjoyment in this is the action sequences and the sci-fi feel of the whole thing. The planes look like they came out of a Jude Watson novel, and the dogfight sequences are visually thrilling.
Something that did kind of annoy me about this movie is that they has a few animations that it shows over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. It's like they couldn't be bothered to create a new animation. They kind of just said "No. Let's use that one again. I don't care that we just showed it a minute ago." In particular there's on animation of planes appearing on the radar that gets shown at least a dozen times, I'd guess probably more.
My biggest problem with it, however, it not the repeated animation. My least favorite part of it is how blatantly it is propaganda. The American win every fight shown, and they are almost constantly talking about how far ahead the US is compared to other countries. They even refer to the other countries as, and I quote "the bad guys".
Overall: 2 out of 4 stars. It's worth checking out if you're into this kind of stuff, but at times it comes across as low-budget and arrogant.
Reference scale:
Beyond the Movie: Lord of the Rings < Dogfights of the Future < Indie Game: the Movie
You can check it out for free here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHdht7jdjSc
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