Flashy Special Effects Can't Save this Bland War Epic

Rating: 5/10 (5 December 2019)

Midway tells the incredible true story of the Battle of the Midway in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It boosts an incredible star studded cast of talented actors, showcases flashy special effects and gives us a balanced perspective, but that movie can't help but feel just overly bland.
Midway is yet another film by infamous director Roland Emmerich that fails to understand that drama is through character and not situations and explosions. In the end the film really fails the real people that risked their lives by portraying them as flat one dimensional people.
As I said the cast is really good and sometimes they all manage to give at least something memorable to the film overall, but there's really not a reason to care for these characters aside that they're based on real people that have their lives. The action scenes are good, but it's nothing we haven't seen before and done much better.
Midway ends up being a lifeless soulless recreation of historical events that fails to illuminate on the horrors of war, or the sacrifices made. It is just a stale and very bland film that never picks up and feels ultimately underwhelming and forgettable.