Product: Midway (Collector's Edition) (1976)
Rating: 1.0
Can't give a minus star review!
It's pathetic that perhaps the greatest sea battle in U.S. history generated such a lousy movie.This movie stinks on many levels. It uses outtakes from Tora Tora Tora, so the viewer sees interesting things like battleship masts at Midway. The actors, except maybe Henry Fonda and Hal Holbrook, do lousy jobs. Charlton Heston is particularly irritating- you get the impression that he was running the Pacific fleet and Admiral Nimitz just came in on the weekends to read his mail.The "romance" angle in the movie just slows it down and somehow makes you wonder if these people's personal problems were bigger than World War II!