MIDWAY
Watchable. It could have been a notable movie, hadn't it been for Roland Emmerich. Instead it's one of his typical class B blockbusters. With a 59.5 million $ budget, however, I'd expect better visuals. And, as in Emmerich's films, it's all terribly tacky. History's simplified. The movie starts together with the opening credits. Then, without bothering to introduce characters properly, the military takes over. The ending is touching, when the men who fought the battle of Midway were commemorated - both American and Japanese. Still, my fave was the intelligence plot, partly due to the trick with sending an uncoded message about a fresh water facility failure but also owing to Aaron Eckhart as Jimmy Doolittle. It's good the story was based on historic facts but such events deserve a better depiction.
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