Midway
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Actor: Charlton HestonEdition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 132 minutes
Release Date: 2000-09-05
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Universal Home Video
Studio: Universal Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of Midway
Movie Review: Entreating Heroics and Tactics despite Flawed Subplot
Summary: 4 Stars
Trying to fit political correctness into this film was not necessary. In fact it hurt the film. Edward Albert Jr. and Charlton Heston's characters are pure fiction compared to most of the other actors' characters in the cast. They are used to address the issue of Japanese-Americans detained and relocated after Pearl Harbor. This issue was better addressed, and rightly so, by director Robert Pirosh in his WWII film GO FOR BROKE. The issue of the loyalty of Japanese-Americans was at the heart of that film. The focus of MIDWAY should have been solely about the turning point of the war in the Pacific. There is really not much new film footage in this movie. It is effectively constructed with lots and lots of stock footage and it manages to tell the story of the battle quite well. MIDWAY remains entertaining while you try to pick out all the actors that show up in this film such as Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Wagner, Robert Webber, Ed Nelson, James Shigeta, Monte Markham, Christopher George, Glenn Corbett, Tom Selleck, Dabney Coleman, Erik Estrada, and many others. One of the best elements of this film is the score and thematic march composed by John Williams.
Movie Review: Captures the Scope of the Battle in True Hollywood Form
Summary: 4 Stars
MIDWAY is an interesting concoction of reams of stock footage edited to newly filmed scenes of an all-star cast. It was all done in an effort to retell the Battle of Midway for American audiences in conjunction with our Bicentennial celebration. Director Jack Smight would have been more successful if he eliminated the fictional characters portrayed by Charlton Heston and Edward Albert Jr. and told it in semi-documentary style. The cast includes Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Glenn Ford, James Coburn, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Toshiro Mifune, Hal Holbrook, James Shigeta, Christopher George, Robert Webber, Monte Markham, Glenn Corbett, Dabney Coleman and Tom Selleck. John Williams composed a very effective score reminiscent of some of his early work such as his score for NONE BUT THE BRAVE. In the end it all seems to work and does not fail to entertain. Glenn Ford as Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance and Robert Mitchum in a small but impressive role as Vice Adm. William F. 'Bull' Halsey Jr. come off best.
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