Product: Midway (Collector's Edition) (1976)
Rating: 1.0
Midway between "bad" & "sucks"
This is not a movie for anybody who is interested in Naval history or has any knowledge of the ships and aircraft types that were actually in the battle. Besides Hestons' usual overblown acting, the movie is spoiled by outakes from actual combat footage shot long after Midway was a memory, involving aircraft types that were not in service at the time. Overhead views of modern(1950's & 60's) U.S. carriers only needed an Apollo or Gemini spacecraft bobbing in the water to complete the fiasco. This movie is one anachronism after another. For a far better portrayal of the events at Midway, I would recommend the television mini-series of Herman Wouks' "War and Remembrance", starring Robert Mitchum et. al. Although built around fictional characters, the historical research was better and skilled use of good models was better than bad use of inaccurate video. Skip this movie.