A remake that's sadly executed

Rating: 4/10 (17 November 2019)

Having watched and come to love the original Midway movie starring some juggernauts of Hollywood history, I was really looking forward to a more modern version of the story of Midway.
However this movie suffers in the same way as Pearl Harbour was a bad movie, only this time there is no love story. My heading states badly executed, here is why.
Plot:
The movie itself is overloaded with narrative, from the attack on Pearl Harbour, to the Doolittle raid over Tokyo then onto Midway. Everything moved so quickly that there is no real character development nor any real reason to invest any emotion in them.
Pace:
Imagine having a DVD with the events of WW2 and then playing it on 10x speed, that's how this movie was. In my opinion the attack Pearl Harbour should have been left out, and start the movie with the Doolitle raid. At just over 2hrs, this movie was so overloaded that it missed key important and interesting elements of the events leading to the battle.
Cast:
I love Woody Harrelson, and he looked and acted the part, but was so under used it was very disappointing. I also love Dennis Quaid, he was probably one of the standout actors on the movie playing Admiral Halsey. However I felt he had too much air time in the movie considering he wasn't involved in the battle due to being hospitalized. The two US admirals (Fletcher and Spruance) who were involved had very little to no airtime in the movie, this made no sense as they had to make on the spot decisions that helped turn the tide of the battle, specifically Spruance's decision to launch the first attack at max range which cost the lives of some airmen due to running out of fuel. The actors who played the Japanese were pretty solid, seeing a familiar and reliable face of the actor who played Admiral Yamaguchi. But again I felt they deserved more airtime.
Historically accurate?:
For the most part I would say yes, but even some of that is given some of the typical Hollywood treatment. For instance when Torpedo 8 has an unsuccessful attack on a battleship at Corak Sea due to poor torpedoes, and when the squadron is wiped out at Midway is 100% accurate, even the comments made by the Japanese commanders about how bad the planes and crews were is true, because the planes were outdated and crew not experienced.
However there were some things they overlooked for instance the fact that a third of the Bombing 8 squadron had no bombs due to faulty equipment was missed out. The crucial role that fighting 8 played in the battle was cut. The invaluable role that the PBYs from Midway played in locating the Japanese fleet was cut (airgroup was called Strawberry) the movie suggested that it was Layton that put them on the right path, truth is that the Jap fleet were coming out of a big storm and it was unknown exactly where they would come out of.