Much better than expected

Rating: Null/10 (10 November 2019)

Seeing the trailers and early critics reviews, I expected a movie similar the 2001 Pearl Harbor- a film dominated by the sappy "love triangle".
"Midway" while not perfect, did not fall into the same trap. Overall, the film focuses on the battles from the attack on Pearl Harbor through Midway.
The best parts of the movie are the battle scenes, which in the end save the movie. The special effects are very good, although some are over the top, like the laser-like machine gun fire and powerful some over the top explosions.
The film would have been better without the omnipresent loud background music that over powered the dialog. The acting was decent, but the scenes switched rapidly from one to the next, so few individual scenes lasted more than a couple of minutes. This lead to little character development. War movie cliches in the dialog were frequent.
The film would have been better had it focused solely on the Battle of Midway- the intelligence effort to discover the Japanese attack plans, the preparations for the defense of Midway, the deployment of the U.S. naval forces, the actual battle.
In the end it was decent entertainment; saved by the battle scenes. Not a war movie at the level of quality as "Dunkirk", but not as disappointing as "Pearl Harbor".