Midway

Midway (1976)

  • 50% of critics liked it
    (12 reviews)

  • 71% of users liked it
    (6,895 ratings)

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 Midway was the turning point of the War in the Pacific; the Japanese invasion fleet was destroyed,… More

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PG,
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Genres
Documentary, Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics
In Theaters
Jun 18, 1976 Wide
MCA Universal Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Richard T. Jameson, Parallax View

    To make an uninvolving movie out of one of the most decisive battles of the Second World War may seem a dubious challenge, but there's no denying Universal their full credit in meeting it.

  • James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette

    Rather dull, although certainly elaborate enough

  • Dan Fazio, Citysearch

    Charlton Heston at his restrained yet forceful best.

  • Brian Mckay, eFilmCritic.com

    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.

  • Scott Weinberg, Apollo Guide

    If the movie drags a bit in the dramatics department, that's probably because the filmmakers were shooting for 'accuracy' over 'emotion'.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Universal D


    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.

  • Randy T


    I can't help but think that a certain amount of entertainment value was sacrificed for the sake of historical accuracy.

  • Red L


    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.

  • Barry L


    Good war film

  • Timothy O


    Not completely accurate, but a great war, or should I say, anti-war film

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