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Rating: 2/10 (6 December 2019)

Absolute trash. They managed to make one of the most exciting moments in history a boring piece of garbage. I was expecting a tight account of the several coincidences, doubts, gambles and strategies that led to the outcome. Instead, I got an unwarranted focus on 2d-rendered characters I couldn't care less for. It's hard to understand the real dynamics of Midway watching this film. Other shortcomings: 1) Clichés, such as pilots questioning their commanders orders in their face and doing "rebel" things, as if this was "Top Gun". 2) Terrible choice of starting the story from Pearl Harbour. Because of this, the script is cramped and many scenes are rushed. The day of Midway needed two hours of narration itself to adequately tell the almost unbelievable development of events. It was a griding day of crucial choices and risks taken, that would not show their consequences until two hours later. Tension at its best. 3) Ok with the "realism", but why insist with japanese people speaking Japanese and having me reading subtitles? That was unnecessary. 4) The CGI. Good grief. Most of it is very good. But in the most spectacular moments, you can clearly see the heavy hand of the director and imagine him say: "More spectacular! More spectacular!". I'm talking about the super fake cameras moving around the crashing planes: that was good 20 years ago, now it's just boring and fake. Gimme some good vehicle mounted cameras (as Nolan and Miller still do) and that's ten times more breathtaking. Other laughable and heavy-handed CGI moments are the large fires: burning Pearl Harbour has nothing realistic to a trained eye, it's more similar to an imperial cruiser crashing on a planet. 5) Exposition. 6) Acting. They spent 100 millions, and couldn't sign good actors, aside from Harrelson who by the way is going through the motions.
Overall: hot garbage.