Fanciful movie making meets historical fiction.

Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2020)

This was an entertaining movie, which is its primary job. To entertain. It's more Star Wars then historical account. But there's enough there for it to at least aquatint the viewer with the historical events around Midway. But this won't be shown in any high school history classes. It's more of an action movie with impossible, and sometimes laughable aeronautical displays of CGI.
Like when the Japanese planes strafed the streets of Pearl Harbor by flying between buildings. Or, some of the fantastic carrier take-offs, and dive bomb runs. ....but hey, it's just a movie, right?
The acting and script dialogue was fine. Some of the story plot elements were amusingly bad. The CGI was fine, well, except for the fire. Why can't they get fire to look right in CGI, a lot of movies have problems with it, and this one did as well. But it wasn't that distracting.
Even with its flaws and foibles, I was entertained. And at the end of the day, that's all that counts right?