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- 2019
- Roland Emmerich
- 132 mins
- 12
Summary
Second World War action drama starring Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, and Woody Harrelson. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, US codebreaker Edwin Layton begins to gather intelligence on when and where to retaliate against the Japanese. His advice to fleet commander Admiral Chester W Nimitz becomes crucial for the battle in 1942, led by the USS Enterprise's Lieutenant Dick Best.
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A star rating of 3 out of 5.
Terry Staunton
A landmark Second World War battle over the Pacific Ocean is brought to the screen with all the boom and bluster you'd expect from the director of such effects-laden fare as Independence Day and The Day after Tomorrow. Roland Emmerich favours spectacle over subtlety, and while he has described the film as a passion project rooted in historical accuracy, the absence of fully-rounded characters for audiences to care about gives the impression of a cold, clinical computer game. Patrick Wilson fares best as the naval intelligence officer whose warnings about the scale of Japanese fire power initially go unheeded by more senior military figures, including gung-ho fleet commander Chester Nimitz (played by Woody Harrelson, giving a master class in scenery-chewing). Emmerich offers a fairly balanced portrait of both the US and Japanese forces, but there's never any real sense of the human cost of Midway, the death toll all but dismissed as the acceptable price of global conflict.
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rolenameDick BestEd SkreinEdwin LaytonPatrick WilsonAdmiral Chester W NimitzWoody HarrelsonWade McCluskyLuke EvansAnn BestMandy MooreWilliam "Bull" HalseyDennis QuaidJimmy DoolittleAaron EckhartBruno GaidoNick JonasAdmiral Isoroku YamamotoEtsushi ToyokawaTamon YamaguchiTadanobu AsanoRoy PearceAlexander LudwigClarence DickinsonLuke KleintankEugene LindseyDarren CrissJohn FordGeoffrey Blake
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rolenameDirectorRoland Emmerich
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Theatrical distributor
Lionsgate
Released on
2019-11-08
Languages
English | Japanese
Guidance
Violence, swearing
Available on
DVD
Formats
Colour
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