Excellent, enjoyable, over a billion.

Cheyanne 2022-04-21 09:02:51

Standard Roland Emmerich level. Big scene, multi-threading, main theme, heroic love. Excellent, enjoyable, over a billion.

As one of the turning points of World War II, the Battle of Midway is worthy of a big shot. In particular, the United States is slightly weaker on paper ("Enterprise", "Bumblebee", "Yorktown" vs "Akagi", "Kaga", "Soryu", and "Flying Dragon"), the command is more chaotic (the situation occurs frequently when the plane takes off), and the early stage At a critical juncture when the attack was fruitless (but the firepower of the Japanese Zero fighters was consumed), with the impact of the last two dive bombers sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers in a row, it can be said that the victory of the entire Pacific battlefield was established in one fell swoop. Looking back, the U.S. military succeeded in code-breaking (changing "sneak attack" into "anti-sneak attack"), and the Japanese army lost in spot reconnaissance (not sending enough reconnaissance planes to learn about the situation), which shows the importance of intelligence in war. As for the commander's level (Nimitz vs Yamamoto, Fletcher vs Nagumo), on-the-spot tactics (main attack vs main defense), heroic soldiers (Best, the protagonist of this film, did hit the two aircraft carriers Akagi and Hiryu in a row in one day, but The Japanese side also has strong generals such as Kobayashi Daoyu and Nagajo City), let’s leave it to the experts to argue (personally, I feel that the US’s division of troops has played a role, causing the Japanese planes to attack the same aircraft carrier twice; and Nagumo’s time for the bomber to change the explosives also a failure).

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Extended Reading
  • Era 2022-01-05 08:01:53

    The retro war group portraits link Pearl Harbor, the bombing of Tokyo and Midway Island into one line. The literary drama revolves around cut-off battles and the martial arts revolves around sea and air battles. The backstage is full of passionate heroism. At the same time, the dark lines of Japanese forces have also given enough understanding and respect. Emmerich knew what the audience wanted, tight from start to finish, without a word of nonsense. Fans should be able to spot the Ford director who flashed past in the film. That's right, it's John Ford.

  • Josianne 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    Woody Harrelson played the hardest Nimitz, and Layton has a lot of behind-the-scenes heroines. The hearts were almost blown out when the Akagi and Hiryu were bombed, which is one of the few bright spots in the whole film. Yamaguchi Takumi still played the role of a tragic man, but Nagumo Chuichi, the bearer of the blame, was simply photographed as an old stupid donkey. Asano Tadanobu has nothing to play, not as deep as Abe Kuan in the previous Japanese version of "Yamamoto Fifty-Six". And this time, Hiroji Yamamoto replaced Yuyakusho Hiroji with Toyokawa Etsuji, which is quite satisfactory.

Midway quotes

  • Dick Best: [shouting at the staff car] Hey, Nimitz ! when are you going to let us hit those Japs ?

    Staff Officer (Nimitz): [embarrassed] I'm sorry, Sir. Shall I get their names ?

    Chester W. Nimitz: No. It's good to know at least some of the men still want to fight.

  • Edwin Layton: Washington is starting from a false assumption, and looking for evidence to support it.