Hardly the blockbuster to match the American movie starring Tom Cruise, Chinese film Born To Fly is more dreary vanity flight than rousing nationalist paean, says this independent international relations analyst.
The May 2023 release of Born To Fly, about People’s Liberation Army Air Force test pilots risking their lives to develop a, aims to do for the Chinese air force what Top Gun did for the Americans in the 1980s.
The film begins with an action set piece where American-accented and English-speaking fighter pilots fly over the While earning a respectable US$125.2 million, it is heavily dwarfed by other Chinese blockbusters such as Full River Red at US$673.5 million and The Wandering Earth Part 2 at US$604.4 million.
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