• Title: Midway
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Roland Emmerich turns his attention from disaster flicks in favor of one of the worst war films in recent memory. Midway makes Pearl Harbor look good. Theoretically, Midway is about decisive WWII naval battle that turned the tide in the Pacific. In reality, only about half the film deals with the battle as it struggles in fits and starts while failing at offering a broader context leading into the Battle of Midway.

Wes Tooke‘s script is over-brimming with forgettable characters, bad dialogue, and dramatic interludes where history seems to all but stop. The result is a bland film filled with unremarkable actors giving unremarkable performances during what we’re told, but not shown, is an important historical event (that is never really properly put in context).

Rather than offer a central character, the story moves around showcasing various people involved in war effort including analyst Edwin Layton (Patrick Wilson) and maverick fighter pilot Dick Best (Ed Skrein) along with a dozen others who come and go over the course of the film so frequently you forget they were a part of the story (poor Aaron Eckhart).

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