Review of Midway (2019) by Dontbenasty — 16 Dec 2019
Unfortunately, Midway plays like a disjointed, star studded documentary than a coherent movie. The one thing you will notice right away is how much the movie jumps around, and if you don't pay attention, you'll get confused since we are jumping forward in time and in between places frequently and without much warning. Then we have some side plots that go nowhere. This movie could do without the whole Doolittle raid, the submarine, and the director trying to make a movie on midway. It feels like they are trying to fit in as many tidbits of historical info as they can. Instead, it could focus a bit more on midway and everyone stationed there(for a movie about midway, there is awfully little of it) and have more focus on the operation. As it stands there is no build up and you can't definitely tell when the time for the attack has come. To be frank this movie is not that historically accurate either.
One other thing is the CGI. At best it looks like the best from a video game cinematic, at worse it looks like some cable channel's documentary.
About the acting I think it was ok, the actors gave their best. But they weren't given much time or space to breat as the movie just jumped around constantly.
Overall I thing it's a passable, albeit mediocre film.
This review of Midway (2019) was written by Dontbenasty on 16 Dec 2019.
Midway has generally received positive reviews.
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