Product: Midway (Collector's Edition) (1976)
Rating: 2.0
Stock Footage!?
This movie is bad because of two reasons: the use of stock footage of the battle of Midway instead of recreating the events and all the actors are speaking English instead of their native languages. The reason that "The Longest Day," "Patton," "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and "A Bridge Too Far" are better is because they only use stock footage when showing a WWII newsreel. All the battles are recreated. The latter reason is also a similar connection to the forementioned movies. Anybody who has seen the Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune in his Kurosawa masterpieces knows his gruf, hard voice. He doesn't sound like that at all when he speaks English, he instead sounds like a Japanese man trying to speak English. These two problems ruin all the credibility of the movie. The extra star is to showing the movie in its orignial Panavision.