Like a 2 hour electronic war game nothing new to add

Rating: 6/10 (17 February 2020)

My Review - Midway
My Rating 6:5/10
I've said before I'm not a fan of War films but top quality productions like Dunkirk , 1917, and the great Australian movie Danger Close : The Battle of Long Tan I really enjoyed and they're easy to praise for their great script and production values but Midway is nowhere near the standard of those films.
In my opinion "Midway " a modern remake of the 1976 film starring Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda ,James Coburn and Glenn Ford has probably superior special effects but I didn't engage with this retelling at all probably because I knew the outcome but more because the script was so poor. As an example the wife of Dick Best played by Ed Skrein when told her man is possibly shot down in battle says emotionally that she has to powder her nose some more" and the same Ed Skrein ( I'm sure he was channeling the late John WAYNE) when rallying his men says something along the lines of "the wagons are circling and we'll shoot em down one by one " There's something so predictable about scripts in
most not all American War movies.
The Hollywood Studios wouldn't touch Midway
* Roland Emmerich Director of Independence Day, 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow couldn't interest Hollywood studios in the US$100 million on for the project .Director Roland Emmerich would even take trips to Beijing to meet with potential Chinese financiers. In the end, the production received close to US$24 million from Chinese investors including Starlight Group, which funds Emmerich's company Centropolis .
It will be interesting to see if the Chinese investors get their investment returned?
So far the estimated budget for Midway was USD 100,000,000 so far Worldwide it's made a total of $123.3 million so it's possibly a modest box office success but certainly not a critical success.
For those who like American War Films or that genre in general the visual effects are outstanding but the script and some of the performances are " B"grade in my estimation. I don't enjoy electronic War games and felt I'd been playing one for 2 hours as it's mainly battle scenes throughout and while it's a fitting tribute to the brave men who fought in this horrific battle and those who lost their lives at Pearl Harbour it's all been done before and adds no new perspective but that's just my opinion.