'Independence Day' director Roland Emmerich turns his attention to real war in a WWII saga. Read the review of Midway:
Questions of quality aside, how large is the potential audience in 2019 for a movie like Roland Emmerich's? There seems to be an endless appetite for films exploring the Nazi horrors that made fighting World War II necessary; and artists like Christopher Nolan will likely continue finding new ways to reframe this combat for contemporary sensibilities.
We're told later on that "men like Dick Best are the reason we're gonna win this war," but there are few such men onscreen. In a much smaller part, Nick Jonas plays sailor Bruno Gaido, whose spontaneous heroism during one Japanese attack earned him a promotion on the spot. It's a movie-like but true incident; while that should be enough, the film gilds the lily later on, giving the young star a moment of brave defiance that is probably pure fiction.
About that Pearl Harbor attack: It's weirdly unaffecting here, given the resources Emmerich has to bring its shocking violence home. In one second, an officer is joking with a sailor about "chasing tail"; in the next, hundreds of Japanese planes are strafing them and dropping bombs on battleships. Surely, the contrast between banality and profound destruction is intentional, meaning to underline how stark the surprise attack was for a nation still refusing to enter the war.
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