Much better than the reviews said it was

Rating: 10/10 (9 November 2019)

As usual, liberal critics who hate America and nationalism bashed this movie. I went in wanting to hate it completely, I had a discounted ticket and just wanted to get out to the theater because I'm working a very stressful job now. Ed Skrein did an amazing job and Roland Emmerich did an amazing job recreating 1940s America and the Navy. Many directors just choose to hire today's flavor of the day actors and won't even make them adopt period-accurate hair styles and personalities. Even Saving Private Ryan was pretty bad about that, with soldiers talking like they were from the modern day, haircuts that the actors wear everyday, there was just little effort put into recreating the period.
I was pleasantly surprised at the battle scenes. From what I've read of the actual Midway battle, they got many of the details that I remembered fairly accurate. I'm no expert, but at no point was there any head-scratching moment like you saw in "The King" or "Outlaw King" where they had something ridiculous happen like the King of France trying to fight the King of England 1v1 and getting killed by some ordinary soldiers after slipping in the mud, lol! To make matters worse, that's a Netflix movie, not something commercially released in theaters! I think if this movie was that ridiculous, it would have FDR in one of the dive bombers or something, good lord.
I will definitely be buying this on home video when it is released. I am impressed. Do not listen to the critics.