Midway is better than the pro critics proclaim.

Rating: 8/10 (10 November 2019)

The critics are right in that the movie is a little shallow in terms of plot and character development ... but the need to fill in the story of events leading to Midway in order to educate a 21st audience meant there is too little screen time to accomplish address those deficiencies. The end result is still a rousing drama despite knowing the forgone conclusions. The only things that detracted me were the little jabs against the Japanese demanded by the Chinese producers of the movie, so transparently added to the story line to further the real grievances the Chinese people still have against Japanese aggression. But really, the war is long over and those guilty of atrocities are long dead or surely will be.