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   On Friday, July 2, 2021 at 6:53:50 AM UTC-7, Mark Leeper wrote:   
   > MIDWAY (2019) (film review by Mark R. Leeper and Evelyn C. Leeper)   
   >   
   > This is a 2019 re-creation of the Battle of Midway, currently best   
   > known from the 1976 film MIDWAY. The special effects seem a grade   
   > below those of Michael Bey's 2001 PEARL HARBOR, and the script   
   > drops a lot of names to tie this film to that one. In fact, the   
   > first half of this film is about the attack on Pearl Harbor and the   
   > subsequent Doolittle raid on Tokyo. It is an hour into the film   
   > before Midway is more than just a passing name.   
   >   
   > But the name-dropping is also because, unlike the earlier 1976 film   
   > MIDWAY, or PEARL HARBOR (which also covers the Doolittle Raid),   
   > this film does not add fictional characters or a fictional love   
   > interest. (Another film set in this period that sticks to real   
   > people is TORA! TORA! TORA!) So all the names are real and hence   
   > sound a little like name-dropping. Even when names aren't   
   > mentioned, there are glimpses of the best-known people from Pearl   
   > Harbor. For example, at the awards ceremony shown about an hour in   
   > (and which took place shortly before the Battle of Midway on the   
   > deck of an aircraft carrier), we see from behind an African-   
   > American seaman in the row of recipients; that would be Doris   
   > Miller, who was awarded the Navy Cross on May 27 on the deck of the   
   > USS Enterprise.   
   >   
   > (Many films have featured highly fictionalized accounts of the   
   > attack on Pearl Harbor, the Doolittle Raid, or both. This may be   
   > the first reasonably accurate depiction of those events.)   
   >   
   > One problem in war movies is balancing the chaos of battle with the   
   > need to let the audience follow what is going on. MIDWAY leans   
   > more toward the former than the latter.   
   >   
   > Another problem with the film is that it may be too accurate. We   
   > are introduced to a lot of actors with unfamiliar faces who are   
   > much less familiar than those in, say, the earlier MIDWAY, making   
   > it harder to keep the characters straight. This makes it harder to   
   > follow the events.   
   >   
   > The script also takes the story from 1937 to 1942, chops it in   
   > pieces, and although it shows them in chronological order, the   
   > script jumps a few months or years with only minimal warning.   
   >   
   > Mark summarizes: "I never actually followed a historic battle for   
   > accuracy. This one I did. The Battle of Midway is one of the most   
   >   
   > amazing stories in military history and I was very pleased to see a   
   > new film featuring that story."   
   >   
   > This is the rare war film that gets more points for historic   
   > accuracy than for entertainment.   
   >   
   > Rating: low +3 (-4 to +4)   
   >   
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   > Mark R. Leeper and Evelyn C. Leeper   
      
   (Youtube upload):   
      
   Midway (2019) - Movie Review   
      
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