In a typically intense scene in Masters of the Air, we are put in the midst of a US bombing mission over Nazi Germany. With dozens of other planes falling from the sky and one of their own engines on fire, a fighter plane's co-pilot thinks it is time to parachute out. The pilot, Major Gale "Buck" Cleven (Austin Butler) grabs him by the arm and yells, "We're going to sit here and take it! You hear me? We're going to sit here and take it!" That scene reveals what is gripping and also what is creaky in the much-hyped...