The 1942 battles of the Coral Sea and Midway island are retold through the points of view of both sides. When an audacious US air raid reaches Japan itself, Combined Fleet commander Isoroku Yamamoto orders seaborne invasions of Port Moresby in the southwestern Pacific and of Midway Island near Hawaii, invasions that Yamamoto hopes will smoke out the US Pacific Fleet for destruction before the full might of US war production can kick in. The Japanese are supremely confident of victory over the vastly outnumbered US fleet, but they are unaware that US Navy intelligence has cracked the Imperial Navy's codes, allowing the US to deploy aircraft carriers to maximum counteroffensive effect. The summer of 1942 brought Naval stalemate to the Pacific as the American and Japanese fleets stood at even numbers each waiting for the other to begin a renewed offensive. "Midway" tells the story of this historic June battle where a Japanese carrier force, in an attempt to occupy Midway island and lure the American fleet to destruction, was meet valiently by US forces operating off of three aircraft carriers and numerous escort ships. It was the first battle in which naval air power was extensivly used, and at its conclusion the Japanese Carrier force had been completly destroyed which lead the way for the US 1943 and 44 offensives which would eventually bring the Pacific War to a close. Midway brings the viewers a realistic scenario of events that occurred before and during the battle. Exhausting efforts to break the Japanese code and also seeing the anguish of the Japanese Commanders when their task force was defeated is most interesting. The facts were depicted fairly as I know them. The romance of a junior officer and his Japanese girl friend seems a little odd, especially, when it causes problems with Charleton Heston's character. The Battle of Midway was a very historic WWII battle. I don't believe enough American People really understand the consequences if the USA had lost the battle. This picture realistically depicts the epic portions of the battle. Overall, I liked it and it was made with excellent standards in choice of words rather than trash talk. I Just watched Midway and Das Boot but I am looking for a movie with some action scenes, war scenes. There are some great movies about Vietnam war: Deerhunter, Apocolpse Now and Platoon. And there are some good movies like Behind Enemy Lines and Black Hawk Down. But I cant find a good WW2 movie with conflict scenes. The subplot in Midway got in the way of the war. Bridge on River Kwai good but I want to see the US forces in battle with the bad guys. Any suggestions? I have seen Run Silent, Run Deep….the submarine movies are pretty cool. Pearl Harbor too.Das Boot was good but WAY too long. What ones am I missing? I know there must be a ton of good war movies.
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