Got around to watching “Midway” (2019) on Prime. Great flick in terms of research and terrific work on the CGI, the SBD Dauntless and all the ships are spectacular… I loved the attention to detail given to the flight and dive scenes, crazy to think a lot of the stunts shown are not Hollywood spectacle, but actually happened!
Sadly it gets bogged down by an uninspired script and kinda wooden performances, and probably the typical problem of trying to cram to much stuff in a single movie: it goes through the Pearl attack, the Doolittle raid, the Marshall Island & Coral Sea campaigns to build up to the actual Midway climax… That’s a lot for two hours.
Still, better than “Pearl Harbor”, and it would be unfair to dismiss it by association. It’s definitely worth a watch

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