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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Midway quotes

  • Wade McClusky: Men like Dick Best are the reason we're going to win this war.

  • Clarence Dickinson: What are Army planes doing on a carrier ?