CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Trey Yancy This is a particularly ridiculous film in just about every way. If you can overlook the utterly weak swiss cheese of a story, the astonishing incompetence of the captain and all of the Japanese, the notion of a woman POW in a men's prison camp, the inability of two dozen Japanese ships to spot a periscope, the unawareness of the Navy that a sub is not a ship but a boat, and that the battle the film is supposed to be about doesn't happen until eighty minutes in, it provides passable entertainment.

Leofwine_draca BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA is a complete misnomer of a title for this B-movie WW2 flick about the crew of a US submarine finding themselves at the mercy of the Japanese navy. It's not a battle film at all, it's too cheap for that, and the titular event merely takes place in the last five minutes of the production thanks to some aged stock footage. No, what we have here is a typical prisoner of war film, with the submarine crew forced to surrender to the Japanese, faring on a remote island, and eventually rising up against their oppressors.The cast is headed by genre favourite Cliff Robertson with the likes of L.Q. Jones in support, and there's a tiny role for a debuting George Takei if you can manage to spot him. Generally the production is hampered by a small budget which means that this is a very talky production without much in the way of action or excitement, although the eventual uprising scenes are quite well handled. Sadly they come too little too late for this to be an enjoyable production.

bkoganbing Just in case you're wondering Battle Of The Coral Sea has absolutely nothing to do with the Pacific Allies engaging the Japanese Fleet from May 4 to 8, 1942. The title should not lead you to expect to get a film like The Longest Day or Midway which are factual docudramas about those battles. The Coral Sea battle does deserve such a film and maybe an American or Australian film maker will do such a film some day. This ain't it.This is instead about Cliff Robertson and his submarine sent on a scouting expedition to find out Japanese intentions. They do find out, but the submarine is destroyed and Robertson and his crew are taken prisoner. After that the film plot line is one of escape as Robertson, his surviving crew members and some Aussie prisoners are also looking to break out. Along for the ride is Gia Scala daughter of a French plantation owner who is Japanese speaking and serves as interpreter. She's surviving the best she can by coyly alleging Vichy sympathies.What Robertson might have been doing is anyone's guess because we knew of Japanese intentions having broken the Japanese code. So the film is false on the face of it. Add to that Robertson's rather unbelievable escape, similar to Errol Flynn and his crew in Desperate Journey. Hopefully one day we'll get the real story of the Coral Sea. Demand it rather than this be the film that purportedly tells it.

bcolquho This movie is the prequel to the 1976 movie Midway. On May 8, 1942, the Allies won the first major battle of the Pacific War. The Battle of the Coral Sea was technically a draw but it saw a number of firsts_____for example_____it was the first battle fought inwhich both sides never saw each other. It was a carrier battle. The first carrier battle actually. Japan lost the carrier Junyo and a destroyer. The United States, surprisingly enough, lost only one carrier, the converted battle cruiser Lexington, and one severely damaged. The Yorktown, which will go down a month later at Midway.