Roland Emmerich fails

Rating: Null/10 (9 November 2019)

I try not to hate on films so much and sometimes I'm reasonably generous to films but it's film like this which deserve the hate it gets. Its from the director of Independence Day 2 and The Day After Tomorrow, from that alone, we know how "great" this film will be.
Midway is this generations Peal Harbour and that is not good. Both films are awful and handle their matter in a completely bad way. Recent war films have generally been a lot better especially Dunkirk and Hacksaw Ridge which were both fantastic. This film is 138 minutes of joyless entertainment which never once packs a punch, it never once has any likeable and it never once has a character you can root for.
The the fact that Patrick Wilson or Woody Harrelson can't save the film does say a lot. Since they are generally such terrfic actors.
The action is underwhelming and no sense of tension throughout. I understand that CGI is important in these kind of films but they went overblown and over obvious which completely takes away from the experience.
Just avoid this film. It's not fun and it's not interesting. It's not Roland's worst but it doesn't make his resume any way better.