Phenomenal acting from Jonathan Majors. An inspiring story. A "forgotten" war. Really great effects. _Devotion_ had all of the ingredients to be a tear-jerking blockbuster but - tragically - it misses the mark. Majors is astounding as Jesse Brown, a pioneering Black pilot in the early days of military integration, never more so than when the racism, discrimination, and abuse that his character has internalized erupts from within. His scolding of his co-pilot at the start of the third act, which starts as a murmur but rises with every sentence to a thundering crescendo, is as powerful and affecting a cry for an ally as anything you'll ever see on screen. In those moments he rises so far above the script and his castmates that it's almost absurd. Glen Powell isn't **bad** in his role as wingman Tom Hudner, but he just looks out of his depth next to Majors. The cinemaphotography is beautiful, but it can't paper over the spaces where the story drags, and it certainly can't elevate the flat, nearly dead-eye performances of the entire supporting cast. J.D. Dillard's directorial choices baffled me throughout. Was Brown's squadron some sort of bubble that didn't have any racism in it? And could Thomas Sadoski's Lt. Cmdr. Cevoli have been any more corny & shallow? There were moments when tears threatened to well up, but the spell was never able to hold. I wish like hell that it had been able to.