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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWar movies used to have dash and color and a certain corny sentimentality; Midway hardly even makes us care.
- 50The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyMidway solemnly cross-cuts between the war councils, chart rooms and communications offices on the American side and those on the Japanese side, with characters, who often have to be identified by subtitles, laboriously trying to give us all of the exposition necessary to make the battle coherent. There's no way to act such roles.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineDespite a crowded cast of famous actors, this WW II adventure falls flat because of its claustrophobic sets, cliche dialog, and hackneyed story.
- 40Time OutTime OutNoisy, incomprehensible and lumberingly irrelevant, complete with shell-schlock Sensurround.
- 40NewsweekNewsweekMidway never quite decides whether war is hell, good clean fun, or merely another existential dilemma. This drab extravaganza toys with so many conflicting attitudes that it winds up reducing the pivotal World War II battle in the Pacific to utter nonsense. [28 June 1976, p.78]