Rebecca: This is so bad it's almost good.
Enid: This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again.
I wasn't going to submit this because it is years after the film was released and there have been hundreds of reviews posted. But I found "Midway" so staggeringly horrible that my public service impulses clicking in. Had this been a comedy I would have given it a higher rating as it has a lot of "Airplane" (1980) moments, although seemingly unintentional.
Fortunately when you are laughing at something it eliminates the need for expending energy suspending disbelief and "Midway" would have required so much of my energy that I would have needed weeks of bed rest along with some serious trauma counseling.
I will concede that a surprising amount of the $100MM budget does make it onto the screen. But if you know about the budgetary black hole called special effects the huge budget is understandable. Unfortunately we have been conditioned to accepting expensive but lousy special effects and the absurd scope of "Midway's" WWII story is more suited to a feature length cartoon or an expressionistic experimental student film than something intended to look like realistic action.
I won't concede anything else positive about this mess except a kind of unity. Horrible script, horrible acting for the camera direction, lame cast, and laughable editing. It is perhaps the worst war movie of all time and an insult to the intelligence of whatever its target audience was supposed to be, although enough people paid to see it to make you wonder if the level of their intelligence can even be insulted.
Enid: This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again.
I wasn't going to submit this because it is years after the film was released and there have been hundreds of reviews posted. But I found "Midway" so staggeringly horrible that my public service impulses clicking in. Had this been a comedy I would have given it a higher rating as it has a lot of "Airplane" (1980) moments, although seemingly unintentional.
Fortunately when you are laughing at something it eliminates the need for expending energy suspending disbelief and "Midway" would have required so much of my energy that I would have needed weeks of bed rest along with some serious trauma counseling.
I will concede that a surprising amount of the $100MM budget does make it onto the screen. But if you know about the budgetary black hole called special effects the huge budget is understandable. Unfortunately we have been conditioned to accepting expensive but lousy special effects and the absurd scope of "Midway's" WWII story is more suited to a feature length cartoon or an expressionistic experimental student film than something intended to look like realistic action.
I won't concede anything else positive about this mess except a kind of unity. Horrible script, horrible acting for the camera direction, lame cast, and laughable editing. It is perhaps the worst war movie of all time and an insult to the intelligence of whatever its target audience was supposed to be, although enough people paid to see it to make you wonder if the level of their intelligence can even be insulted.