Combines War Movie with History

Rating: 6/10 (9 November 2019)

America is drawn into a fog of war at sea with Japan.
Midway tries to recount the history of Midway but unless you already know it you wouldn't pick up on the morsels of details that it provides. By trying to cover all the events from 1941 it really gives itself too much to do. Perhaps it should have picked up where Pearl Harbour (2001) left off: after the Doolittle raid. The Battle of the Coral Sea is barely mentioned yet it was far more crucial to the events at Midway as it evened up the odds.
We learn a little of the information gathering, almost none of the strategy and lots about the heroics of the pilots. The audience is still left in the fog of war.