Having just listened to Dan Carlin’s EXCELLENT Hardcore History podcast on the battle of Midway, I was very interested to see how it would go with the modern Hollywood treatment. Short answer: skip the film, listen to the podcast. Admittedly the film’s half as long, but the podcast fared for a much more textured and dramatic telling of the story. The movie conjures up a slightly more hygienic Band of Brothers feel, and the air-to-ship combat sequences feel a lot more like video game sequences than dramatic recreations (although admittedly what the hell would I know). But when all’s said and done, it was a more engaging film than Pearl Harbour.
Midway
