Product: Midway (Collector's Edition) (1976)
Rating: 5.0
See the Japanese fleet blown out of the water!
This film provides a good dramatization of the chess-like feints and counter-feints that culminated in the Battle of Midway. From the Americans cracking the Japanese code, to the Japanese attempting to lure the American force towards the Aleutians, the plot moves step by step as the two fleets converge on the American base at Midway Island (appropriately located in the middle of the Pacific). The fate of the two combatants are seen to turn on such events as the chance spotting of the Japanese fleet by American aircraft. In the opening salvo, the American attack seems all but futile as its torpedo planes fail to hit their marks. Will the all-but-obsolete Dauntless dive bombers succeed where the torpedoes failed? Will Hawaii end up as the ultimate Japanese tourist destination? Well, not with all four of the Japanese fleet's precious aircraft carriers sent straight to the bottom!