Product: Midway (Collector's Edition) (1976)
Rating: 3.0
Accurate, but...
Insofar as "Midway" sticks to the actual history of the battles of Coral Sea and Midway, it's a pretty good film. The history is correct, the battles are depicted accurately and the sequence of events is laid out as it happened. The problem with Midway is that the makers apparantly didn't think the basic story was enough to hold viewers' interest, and so decided to wrap a love story between an Admiral's son and his Japanese-American girlfriend around it. Hello? Midway isn't interesting enough? The battle that turned the tide of the war in the Pacific and rewrote the book on naval strategy?Nevertheless it's still worth watching. History buffs will enjoy how well the events are reconstructed and general viewers will enjoy the complex unfolding of events that make the story of Midway as gripping as any thriller.