Midway's reviews
Media reviews
Time Out
Emmerich?s eye for historical detail is scary (...) The movie becomes a superior entertainment, briefly, whenever it shifts focus to the military strategists behind the hardware.
The Telegraph
A mixed bag (...) 'Midway' will never be mistaken for a classic (...) Stretches of the film work beautifully, though.
Screen Daily
The film lacks the excitement of the director?s best [work] (...) 'Midway' may educate some viewers about a crucial battle, but by straining to be respectful, it fails to be particularly stirring.
Variety
Roland Emmerich stages the Battle of Midway as a convincing historical combat spectacle, though his storytelling remains B-movie basic
The Guardian
A long, loud and tedious history lesson (...) The best thing to do with this movie would be to take cover and wait for it to pass.
Indiewire
The way Emmerich tells [the story] feels more informed by WWII movies than it does by the war itself (...) [It] lacks any conviction of its own.
The A.V. Club
Emmerich is almost completely eluded by the larger sweep of history and war (...) which makes the many subplots of Wes Tooke?s screenplay seem extraneous or pointless.
The Hollywood Reporter
Unfortunately, even a moviegoer who (like this one) is theoretically willing to see yesteryear's war-film genre reanimated with 21st-century production values will find little to love in 'Midway'.
The Washington Post
A big, old-fashioned war movie, with one thing missing: human beings.
Empire
This is a war movie where no-one shows fear, doubt, confusion or anguish (...) In a post 'Saving Private Ryan'-'Dunkirk' landscape, it feels astonishing anyone is still making war movies like this.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote