Impressed with the accuracy

Rating: 9/10 (30 November 2019)

I went to see this movie first with my school's military history club and then again with my navy veteran grandfather, and we were all very impressed with the historical accuracy, especially in the finer details. However, a movie cannot be built on accuracy alone, and the acting in this movie is also superb. The storytelling is throrough but not dry, and the length of the film is almost perfect, with the film spending adequate time on the Pearl Harbor attack, the Doolittle Raid, and finally Midway, with lots of interlude details in between. There was a brief narrative about Doolittle's escape through China, which was well done but I thought out of place in a movie about a naval battle in the middle of the Pacific. Overall, I highly recommend this movie as a movie to see with a friend, with family, or alone.