World War II is an endless subject in Hollywood, and the latest work is "The Battle of Midway". Unlike in the past, the director stated that he will not shoot war films with strong humanistic colors, but adhere to the mainstream blockbuster style. The big scene is the main course, from beginning to end. Undoubtedly, this film is full of entertainment, but it is also like a running account. There is no innovation in the action scenes. It is only a work that the audience can forget when they see it, not an ambitious new classic. The director of
, Loren Emmerich, is famous for his sci-fi action films. His works include "Heavens and Earth Strikes Back", "After Tomorrow", "2012", etc., and can be described as a commercial film expert. As early as 2000, he filmed "Lonely Ambition," which tells the American War of Independence and the atmosphere tends to be serious. This time he directed the war theme again. Unexpectedly, the entertainment effect would be the first. On the contrary, it is more like "Pearl Harbor". The whole film focuses on indiscriminate bombing and has no intentions. It is similar to the cutting-edge shot of the World War II film "Dunkirk". There is a huge gap.
But having said that, in terms of dealing with big scenes, the film does show its best stance. The film length is 137 minutes without too much cold, and the action scenes account for more than half of the film. In order to anesthetize the audience in a dense manner. If you are looking for visual effects, it is not difficult to go home in a happy way. Compared with "Pearl Harbor", it took nearly two hours to set up the composition and drama, and it was not until the last hour to arrive at the martial arts opera. "The Battle of Midway" was much more refreshing. With the cooperation of the plot, a large air raid occurred 15 minutes before the opening, and the audience quickly entered the state, especially the war scenes in the play were more spectacular than the 1976 "Battle of Midway", and computer special effects were used to reconstruct many seemingly impossible Scenes.
Although the film has no ambition, this kind of ambition is also a kind of ambition. This is because even though the film reproduces one of the most glorious battles in American history, it does not exaggerate grand-Americanism and is rare to be honest and objective, which is very different from the director's previous work promoting the United States as the savior. It's a pity that the movie is nothing more than that. If the audience wanted to increase their understanding of World War II and the Battle of Midway Island, or thought that the movie would reflect on the war, they had a beautiful misunderstanding.
Based on the script, this film is undoubtedly more greedy in plot processing, because the part covered is not limited to the battle of Midway. The film talks about the US's handling of intelligence errors and the successful Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It also mentions that the US launched an air strike against Tokyo, Japan. It was not until the final hour that the battle of Midway was the main feature. If the movie talks about Midway Island from the beginning, it will be difficult to finish the movie from beginning to end. However, this arrangement of selling dog meat at the expense of sheep's head is already very abrupt, not to mention the action scenes that are only for the satisfaction of fighting.
has always been able to play a role in the three major historical events mentioned above, enough to shoot three films separately, and even develop into a TV series to explain. However, if you put this into the same movie, even if the film is more than two hours long, it will inevitably be overwhelmed by the duck's back, let alone set aside time to fight and kill. The historical account in the film only achieves the effect of inheritance and transformation. Whether it is sophisticated intelligence warfare or various sea-air competitions, there is no detailed discussion.
As for the role in the play, it is also an explanation for the sake of explanation. The Battle of Midway involves many historical figures, such as the legendary pilot Dick Best, the then US Pacific Fleet Commander Chester W. Nimitz, the well-deserved intelligence officer Edwin Layton, and the Japanese Navy General Yamamoto Fifty-Six, etc., each of them No doubt they can be detailed in a book. Even if the lineup of the movie is star-studded, well-known film stars in the United States and Japan are invited to perform, including Ed Scrin, Woody Harrison, Patrick Wilson and Toyogawa Etsuji. It is a pity that due to the script's excessive emphasis on martial arts and light writing, coupled with the large number of characters to be handled, they have very little room for play. In the end, a group of historical stars only stopped and went in the film, their faces blurred. The
movie brings together such rich historical events and historical figures, and the result is reduced to piles. This includes piles up big scenes to serve the action scene, and then push the entertainment effect to the extreme. The meaning of war in movies, history, and even to humans is certainly not to provoke sensory stimulation. Therefore, due to the subject matter, war films are often in-depth works. "The Battle of Midway" gives people a sense of consumption war, and even seems to be a disaster. Whether it is going to an air base or constructing a 1:1 aircraft carrier, the related live-action shooting is not so much to restore history, as it is to enhance entertainment.
The film that truly restores history does not focus on the metaphysical visual scenes, but on the metaphysical spiritual level.
