Good, but not great

Rating: 7/10 (17 November 2019)

I will preface this by saying that I very much enjoyed this movie, but I think that it had significant weaknesses.
For a film ostensibly about Midway, it spent an awful lot of its runtime covering Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid (yet oddly almost none on the Battle of the Coral Sea). This seemed to lead into an awful lot of foreshortening and simplification of Midway itself.
With that being said, it was well-paced, with good performances, and covered a lot of the essentials well. Details such as the "water" message from Midway were well-placed, as were refernces to the well-known shortcomings of the Bliss-Leavitt Mk XIII aerial torpedo ("clunk"), and the TBD Devastator torpedo bomber (although in the actual battle the USN had 6 of the newer, faster, better armed and armoured TBF Avengers and lost 5 of those, so it wasn't just the planes).
I was surprised to see comparatively little involvement depicted of the fighters in the actual battle, and I think that not enough explanation was given of the US Navy's plan for coordinated aerial attacks with torpedo bombers at low level, dive bombers from high level with fighter cover provided by the F4Fs, and importantly why that didn't happen and its devastating conseuences in terms of the virtual annihilation of the torpedo squadrons.
In all, I think it was a good film that simply tried to cover too much historical ground in too short a time. For all that, I enjoyed it and would recommend it as a good war movie.