Product: Midway (Collector's Edition) (1976)
Rating: 1.0
Just Awful
This has to be one of the worst war films ever produced, with terrible acting, tenuous historical accuracy, and horrendous 'special effects." The action sequences have to be among the worst ever put onto film, with segments from "Tora, Tora, Tora", (a much better film), spliced in with grainy, poor quality film from WWII, often showing totally incorrect aircraft, and ships. In some instances, someone takes off in an F4F, then is shown flying an F6F- not in service until 1943! Charlton Heston, who appears to be in some sort of pain the whole movie, meets his demise in a crashing Helldiver dive bomber, not in service until 1943-44. It appears that the producers, and director just did not care that they were putting out such an embarassing product. This battle, one of the most important in our history, deserves so much better than this slapdash turkey.