Charlton Heston,
Henry Fonda,
James Coburn,
Glenn Ford,
Hal Holbrook
... see more 
An expensive war epic, Midway emulates The Longest Day and Tora! Tora! Tora! in attempting to re-create a famous World War II battle from both the American and Japanese viewpoints. The 1942 battle of ... read more
DVD Release Date: October 10, 2000
Stats: 299 reviews
Blow by blow recital of the facts of the famous WWII Pacific sea battle delivered by faces you know and love makes for a cozy history lesson. The nutty love story thrown in for the ladies is not only distracting but irrelevant. All in all not a terrible waste.
I can't help but think that a certain amount of entertainment value was sacrificed for the sake of historical accuracy.
Like Flixster says, "Midway feels more like a history lesson than a drama". Still, it is history I am only vaguely aware of, so that is fine, but the movie seems long. There are a lot of famous faces in the movie. This film uses a lot of actual battle footage.
Not completely accurate, but a great war, or should I say, anti-war film
There where four Japanese carriers, three on fire. Japanese pilots return to the only carrier left, they see the others on fire and are surprised. So they must have had their eyes closed when they landed on the carrier?
Pearl Harbor should have learned its' lesson from Midway--don't throw in a love triangle or a forbidden love subplot into a movie. If you want it to be a date movie, just make it historically accurate and compelling and let the chips fall where they will. I like the film, apart f... read more
they have great actors but when it all comes down to it its just antoher war movie that dosent stick out to much from the other ones.
there is a pretty cool air to ground combat sequence, but other than that it's just another average war film to come out of the 70's that over stays it's welcome
This was extremely boring and rather poorly made in my opinion. It's just wrong to have all the Japanese characters in the story speaking English!!! They NEED to be speaking Japanese with subtitles in English! The plane battles were awful, and you could never tell what the heck w... read more
Rather dull, although certainly elaborate enough
Charlton Heston at his restrained yet forceful best. Full Review
has the decency to devote the majority of the film to the actual events, and not get bogged down in a fictitious, smarmy love affair. Full Review
If the movie drags a bit in the dramatics department, that's probably because the filmmakers were shooting for 'accuracy' over 'emotion'. Full Review
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Charlton Heston as Capt. Matt Garth
Henry Fonda as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
James Coburn as Capt. Vinton Maddox
Glenn Ford as Rear Adm. Raymond A. Spruance
Hal Holbrook as Cmdr. Joseph Rochefort
Toshiro Mifune as Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto
Robert Mitchum as Adm. William F. Halsey
Robert Wagner as Lt. Cmdr. Ernest L. Blake
Christina Kokubo as Haruko Sakura
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