Product: Midway (Collector's Edition) (1976)
Rating: 2.0
It disappointed me...
Hate to say it, but I found this movie to be a disappointment, for several reasons. I first saw this as a teen in the 70s and liked it then out of naivete'...but now I cannot recommend it.I think it was produced with the intention of following on the coat-tails of "Tora! Tora! Tora!" which was an EXCELLENT film. What I disliked about "Midway":1) It borrows too much from "Tora!" and from actual WW2 footage. That last may sound unusual, since you'd think real footage would add to the picture - but it just didn't seem to fit to me.2) After "Tora!" I had a mindset of who and what the characters were - and the "Midway" actors didn't fill those roles.3) It had an absolutely unnecessary love scene. I think this was done as a deliberate calculation to "fix" something that was missing in "Tora!" - for boxoffice $$ purposes. But it was poorly done. The Japanese girl and the young American officer looked distinctly late 1960s-70s-ish. It looked like an obvious gimmick.4) Above all, there were WAY too many veteran actors in the film. And that tends to lead to too much over-acting, which is what happened here..It may appeal to some people, but it was a miss with me. Just didn't like it...