Product: Midway (Collector's Edition) (1976)
Rating: 2.0
Typical Mid-70's Universal Quasi-Epic
This is a standard-issue 1970's Universal movie (think "Airport '75," "Earthquake," etc.) It has a cliche-ridden script, cardboard characterizations, blink-and-you'll-miss-them cameos by older stars and it seems to have raided the stock footage of every studio in town. The great Toshiro Mifune is rather obviously dubbed by voice actor Paul Frees. All that said, they did get most of the facts right, and if you can get past the cheese factor, it has an interesting story to tell. I just think that the pivotal naval battle of World War II deserved a more documentary approach, ala "Tora! Tora! Tora!"