Review of Midway (2019) by Jackronner — 10 Nov 2019
An arcade game of a movie, and not in a good way. Cartoonish characters everywhere, with dialogue like a bad Saturday Night Live sketch of the period: "Look, I ain't gonna sugarcoat it, boys." They get a British rapper to play the lead character, a Jersey boy! Maybe his accent was from the Jersey English Channel Islands.
He tried for a tough guy; kind of a cross between a wisecracking John Garfield with the look of a smirking James Dean. And failed utterly. The flight scenes were right out of video games, but the ones that don't bear any relation to the physics of flight.
The Japanese fighters in the Pearl Harbor scenes always dramatically flying between the tightly docked ships, which means that they were strafing open water; the steeply diving plane disappears right in front of the landing deck .
. . only to miraculously rise up at the last instant for a perfect landing. Yayyyy! Riiiigggghhhhht. An almost comically bad movie that does no justice to perhaps the most pivotal battle in the history of warfare.
This review of Midway (2019) was written by Jackronner on 10 Nov 2019.
Midway has generally received positive reviews.
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