a5c7b9f00b The 1942 battles of the Coral Sea and Midway island are retold through the points of view of both sides. When an audacious US air raid reaches Japan itself, Combined Fleet commander Isoroku Yamamoto orders seaborne invasions of Port Moresby in the southwestern Pacific and of Midway Island near Hawaii, invasions that Yamamoto hopes will smoke out the US Pacific Fleet for destruction before the full might of US war production can kick in. The Japanese are supremely confident of victory over the vastly outnumbered US fleet, but they are unaware that US Navy intelligence has cracked the Imperial Navy's codes, allowing the US to deploy aircraft carriers to maximum counteroffensive effect.
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heraldeda turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Much was expected of this movie, followingit did such true historical epics"Patton" and "Tora! Tora! Tora!"….unfortunately what emerged is a huge bore-fest that manages to completely leech out any interest in the subject. How did "Midway" disappoint? Let us count the ways. First, Hollywood made a big mistake by turning it into a spot-the-star movie. Very distracting. When one views "Tora! Tora! Tora!", what you find is an ensemble cast of very competent character actors (same with "Patton", minus the two leads). "Midway" instead tries for all the "star power" it can muster,if big names alone will make a good film.<br/><br/>Next is the silly and ridiculous soap opera surrounding Chuck Heston, his pilot son, and a Japanese-American girl the son happens to be in love with. WHY WHY WHY was this included??? As a sop to the political correctness crowd? This subplot is both unnecessary and even painful to watch. The 1970's TV movie "Farewell to Manzanar" dealt with the subject more sensitively and with far more depth. The inclusion of this silly subplot reduced "Midway" to cartoon level. (That, and the comic-book characterizations of the stars, suchsuperman Heston who manages to be where ever anything of consequence is happening).<br/><br/>Personally, I didn't object to the extensive use of real footage (as some viewers have); at least they added something of authenticity to a movie that otherwise had little. They come offbetter than the battle footage that was shot for the movie, which is very inconsequential indeed! But what I strenuously objected to was the misuse of "Tora! Tora! Tora!" footage, which was completely out of place. I mean, a battleship's distinctive cage-mast on Midway Island? Give me a break. Yes,others have posted, there were many historical inaccuracies in the planes and ships used; though after seeing the travesty "Pearl Harbor", THIS film's sins don't seem so bad now!!!<br/><br/>The whole look and feel of the movie fairly screams SEVENTIES! The haircuts are too long, even for civilians of 1942, let alone military men. Especially laughable is the first scene with Yamamoto – an Japanese Imperial Navy aide comes in to tell him of the Doolittle Raid, and this young officer actually has a long page-boy haircut flowing to his shoulders! Like he's ready for the disco floor! Such lack of attention to detail is found throughout the movie. Very sloppy.<br/><br/>Interesting that the TV version added about a half-hour to the running time, and told the story of the preceding Battle of the Coral Sea. As a history buff, I found this interesting, but for most viewers I'll bet it just added to the tedium. Finally, the use of the Sensurround gimmick (pioneered in "Earthquake") in the theaters was an unnecessary distraction. I personally found it annoying, and I heard many stories of the problems Sensurround created for the theaters and adjacent businesses. Fortunately it was a short-lived gimmick!
"Midway" is a blundered mess. An all star cast of veteran actors are assembled looking gruff most of the time. A good portion of the war footage is stock footage that usually doesn't match the look of the actual movie. What's worse is a ridiculous subplot involving Charlton (our hero) Heston's son and his affair with a Japanese woman. It bogs down the entire movie and should have been removed. I suspect it was included to pad the running time which is way overlong. And, for some reason, the filmmakers decided to shoot the film in Sensurround which helped turn "Earthquake" into a blockbuster. The sensurround machines rumbled everytime a plane engine roared onto the scene. Perhaps the filmmakers realized they had a shoddy film and needed a gimmick to make it a hit. The gimmick worked"Midway" was a success. But watching it on television shows off how lousy the film is without the gimmick. Come to think of it, it was a lousy film even with the gimmick.

The hit Universal movie, Midway, opened in Chicago on Friday, June 18, 1976, in the Loop at the United Artists theatre, and four other area cinemas. An ad read: "In Sensurround–the sights, sounds and actual sensations of combat. So real you can feel it!" In Technicolor and Panavision, Rated PG<br/><br/>___________________________
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