The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

An enjoyable and informative movie about the Battle of Midway which attempts to keep to the facts. The main problem with the movie are the continuity errors. I can accept the use of different types of aircraft for the battle scenes even if the types are not strictly accurate in some cases. What is more jarring is when the aircraft taking off is different from the one landing when it is supposed to be the same aircraft. This confuses all viewers of the movie and is simply sloppy film making. There is a smattering of unnecessary footage thrown in that dilutes some of the movie's impact. Overall the movie is quite entertaining but not quite up to the standard of Tora Tora Tora.

I love this movie, but the original released in 1976 was close to four hours long. The abridged version, which is the only version available, cuts out Matt Garth's relationship with his girlfriend, the entire Coral Sea campaign and other side plots. Still, it tells the story of that fateful battle quite well.

Wanted to see this after Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and to my dismay, they stole all the action scenes from that and re-purposed them in this starting at 1:17! Watch both flicks and you'll see, what a rip-off. The other thing that p|ssed me off was the time wasted on the subplot about the kid and his Japanese GF wanting to get married while she was in an internment camp. They wasted so much time on that crap, I am convinced this was cobbled together without writers! Hacksaw Ridge or Letters from Iwo Jima were better films.

Man, this one really stinks.Jack Smight's faded direction with his shameless use of stock footage from other war films makes this action exercise a total bore. Or perhaps it's Smight propping up of Charlton Heston as some kind of 'Moses' of War World II, or Toshiro Mifune's horrendously dubbed voice, or Pat Morita's comatose delivery of his lines, or the inclusion of the sappiest love story since Robert Francis woo'ed May Wynn in 'The Caine Mutiny' 22 years earlier. Whatever the culprit, this 'Middling-way' belongs in the can --- and I do mean the can in the men's room ..... flush twice.