Very credible movie of pivotal battle

Rating: 8/10 (10 February 2020)

I am not a history expert but from my reading on the Battle, the movie gets it fairly right.
Other reviewers who are USN veterans found it so. I did wonder about the be absence of USN fighter aircraft. And I was disappointed that the lossbof the Lexington in the Battle of the Coral Sea, which is what we Australians say saved Australia from invasion was not explicitly noted. The loss of the Yorktown at Midway, where, badly damaged and listing it was abandoned, and reboarded by a salvage crew as it was still aloat, and wounded sailors found and evacuated; and finally sunk by the only Japanese Navy unit that distinguished itself, a submarine, might have been fleshed out. But perhaps that ended up 'on the cutting room floor' to keep screen time to just over 2 hrs.
I admit that after the disappointment of the earlier movie, and poor reviews of this one by the professional critics, I was not expecting much. At the beginning of the movie the 'soapy stuff' with wives made me think it was going to be another 'stinker', maybe as bad as the awful Ben Affleck movie 'Pearl Harbor', which couldn't even get the cringeworthy RAF part right (US Eagle Squadron pilots volunteered illegally under the US Neutrality Act, their heroism appreciated by the Brits but which would early on, have gotten them prison time in the US. When the US enterred WW2, the Eagle Sqns were transferred to the USAAF forming a core of experience around which newly arrived USAAF sqns could be built. USAAF pilots did not turn up to join the RAF wearing US uniform!)
Thankfully my first impression was proven wrong and 'Midway' turned out to be a serious effort to get it (mostly) right. Yes, the 'digital' ships were obvious, but done well .