Review – Midway

This production does a reasonably good job of combining actual archive footage and re-creations to tell the story of one of the key battles of World War Two. Though the running time on AMC was three hours, I found I could cut a third off that by buzzing through not only the ads but also any scene in which the Charlton Heston character starts arguing with his son about the young man’s Japanese-American girlfriend. Further, the first time I saw this (when I was ten) I got the full effect of Sensurround, an experience that’s hard to duplicate. Perhaps I could just set my cell phone to vibrate and then call myself every time something blows up. Mildly amusing