I recently saw Midway, the 2019 version directed by Roland Emmerich with an ensemble cast including Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Luke Evans, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Jonas, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, Tadanobu Asano, and Woody Harrelson.
It garnered mediocre reviews from critics but high ratings from moviegoers. For what it’s worth, a big thumbs-up from me.
As with almost any historical film, it has plenty of historical inaccuracies. And there were romantic subplots that really did nothing to advance the story. Whose husband will come home from the war and whose won’t?
It does a good job of showing the chaos of battle and the often random happenstance of who lives and who dies. Of men casting the dice, knowing that any moment could be their last. Diving a plane in a bombing run seeing shells exploding around you and hundreds of tracer rounds coming at you representing thousands of bullets. And flying straight into it while every fiber of your body is screaming at you to flee this madness.
It’s still in some second-run theaters. I’d recommend seeing the cinematography on the big screen rather than waiting for it to come to the small screen.
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Photo: Yorktown at the moment of impact of a torpedo from a Nakajima B5N of Lieutenant Hashimoto's 2nd chūtai. USN, photographed from USS Pensacola (CA-24). Public domain (U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-41442).
