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- The film’s drama is B-movie basic, but the destructive colliding metal-on-metal inferno of what war is makes “Midway” a picture worth seeing. As storytelling, however, it’s just okay (though it’s more streamlined than the cluttered, cliché-strewn 1976 version of “Midway”).
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Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. After the American naval victory at Midway, the aircraft carrier Enterprise returns to Honolulu. Stirring music plays. Civilians greet the returning heroes. The wounded are taken ashore. Henry Fonda, as Adm. Nimitz, turns to Hal Holbrook, as Cmdr. Rochefort, and asks: "Which was it?
Jun 18, 1976 · With Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford. A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
- (22K)
- Action, Drama, History
- Jack Smight
- 1976-06-18
41% Tomatometer 17 Reviews 71% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings In this dramatization of the Battle of Midway during World War II, U.S. Navy Adm. Chester Nimitz (Henry Fonda) leads an outnumbered...
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- Jack Smight
- PG
- Charlton Heston
He described the film as a "final, anachronistic attempt to recapture World War II glories in a radically altered geopolitical era, when the old good-versus-evil dichotomies no longer made sense." On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 41% score based on 17 reviews, with an average rating of 5.9/10.
The movie was made 30 years after WWII and a couple of years after Vietnam, so it doesn't have a jingoistic feel to it. It has more of a matter of fact feel to it, more a docudrama than propaganda. The movie is different from most war movies because it shows how Grand battles are won and lost.
Nov 7, 2019 · By Kenneth Turan. Nov. 7, 2019 1:57 PM PT. “Midway” is so square, so old-school and old-fashioned, it almost feels avant-garde. Ambiguity is not its goal, nor is nihilism its motivating ...
Nov 6, 2019 · Rated PG-13, 138 minutes. THR review: 'Independence Day' director Roland Emmerich turns his attention to real war in 'Midway,' a WWII saga starring Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Mandy Moore, Ed ...
