As Hollywood's famous "master of disaster films" who destroys everything, the war blockbuster "The Battle of Midway" directed by Roland Emmerich will land in theaters across the country on November 8 line, and will be released simultaneously in North America. On the afternoon of November 4, the film had an advance screening at Paragon Cinemas in Wuhan. In line with the director's previous works, the "scene" is still the biggest attraction of the film. The hour-long air-sea battle scene at the end of the Midway Island is lively enough, especially every time you see dive bombers rushing to drop bombs on the Japanese aircraft carrier, you can Let the audience clench their fists.
Based on the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the movie "The Battle of Midway" tells the story of this key turning point in the entire Pacific War during World War II. In this famous battle of "using small to achieve greater results" in world history, the Allied forces reversed the situation of losing ground since the Pearl Harbor incident. The film begins with the Japanese army's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, showing the tragic battle conditions throughout Midway Island.
Big-scene movies require big-scene directors. Roland Emmerich, who has created Hollywood blockbusters such as "2012", " Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow", serves as the director of the movie. "Midway" is the most anticipated by the outside world. What to watch. Judging from the actual viewing of the film that day, the three battles of the film still maintained the director's consistent standards.
Not long after the movie opens, the plot quickly enters the tragic battle of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but this is just a warm-up. In the second war drama, the sneak attack on Roy Island, the director focused on showing the focus of the film's description - the dive bomber.
When the Allied torpedo situation was full of dangers, the dive bombers vertically facing the enemy's strict artillery fire became the absolute protagonist of the film. And every dive it makes is comparable to a "suicide mission." The large number of main perspective shots of pilots also make this part of the scene very immersive.
This exciting look and feel is fully demonstrated in the one-hour Battle of Midway at the end of the film: the male protagonist Captain Best led the Allied bomber formation twice in a row and entered the Japanese battleship group. When the surrounding wingmen were either shot down or missed their targets, he flew a dive bomber and almost single-handedly "challenged" the Japanese aircraft carrier. The thrilling main-view bombing scene, and the subsequent scene of him escaping from death in a hail of bullets while flying an airplane. , are enough to make the audience clench their fists.
Compared with the remarkable scenes and scenes, "The Battle of Midway" is slightly lacking in the portrayal of characters.
may be limited by the fact that it is adapted from real people. Although there are many characters in the film, there is a clear lack of emotional foreshadowing. The protagonist's status is not prominent enough, and many of the supporting characters are ignored. As a result, the love scenes in the film are not as touching as in "Pearl Harbor", and the portrayal of family and brotherhood is not as touching as in "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Independence Day". (Qiu Chen)
