Time for another film review - this one on the 2019 war film Midway. This is exactly the kind of bombastic, jingoistic nonsense that Americans lap up - personally I thought it was trash. And I think this probably bared so little resemblance to the actual events of the Battle of Midway - just an excuse for a series of ridiculous and unreal looking CGI set pieces, accompanied by story-telling and character development with no semblance of subtlety or nuance (e.g. when a Japanese sailor looks at his ship and says it is like a powder keg, I wonder what is going to happen to it later on?). Obviously all Americans are portrayed as heroes, as are the Chinese (I suspect needlessly inserted into the film at the bequest of some Chinese production company) and all Japanese are villains. Yet, somehow, this film is still miles better than it's most similar counterpart - Pearl Harbor. The reason - no absolutely cringe-worthy love triangle here. 2 stars.
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