Top billed cast

1. 

   Ed Skrein

   Lieutenant Richard 'Dick' Best

2. 

   Patrick Wilson

   Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton

3. 

   Woody Harrelson

   Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

4. 

   Luke Evans

   Commander Wade McClusky

5. 

   Mandy Moore

   Anne Best

6. 

   Luke Kleintank

   Lieutenant Clarence Earle Dickinson

7. 

   Dennis Quaid

   Vice Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey

8. 

   Aaron Eckhart

   Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle

9. 

   Keean Johnson

   Chief Aviation Radioman James Murray

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Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn

Written by Peter McGinn on 2023-04-07

I am not a fan of war movies (and therefore not an authoritative reviewer) so I can only say that I thought it was fairly entertaining. Woody Harrelson and Dennis Quaid were as good as I would expect them to be and the large cast certainly held their own.

I felt there were some war movie cliches here and there, but the Japanese were portrayed with respect and, I assume, realism. The battle felt like a very near thing to me, like it could easily have gone the other way with a bit less bravery and persistence on the part of the American fliers. Plus it showed only two planes returning in the ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$100,000,000.00

Revenue
$127,400,000.00

Keywords

• world war ii
• u.s. navy
• based on true story
• battle of midway
• pacific war
• historical fiction
• pacific theater
• naval warfare
• 1940s