An average movie

Even though I had never heard of this movie before, since there was a nice cast involved, I thought I should check it out. Eventually, it was not bad at all. Indeed, it was dealing with one of the most important battles during the Pacific war, there was an impressive cast (Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshirô Mifune, Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Robert Wagner, Pat Morita, Erik Estrada, Tom Selleck) and the directing was decent even though I'm not sure if the choice to mix the movie with some real footage was such a great idea. Still, the whole thing was not really mind-blowing. Indeed, the whole battle was quite fascinating and rather realistic but, sometimes, also rather confusing and I'm not sure I really followed the whole thing. Furthermore, there was a sub-plot involving Charlon Heston's son in love with a Japanese girl which didn't work at all. I mean, I understand that they wanted to add some romantic angle but it was poorly developped and it didn't really work well with the rest of the movie. Anyway, eventually, it was still a decent war movie dealing with an impressive battle and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.