Barely above mediocrity, that's what it is. I had higher hopes for this movie.

Let's start with what I think is the most important thing in a movie like this: the story. As far as I know, they got most of the stuff right and that really pleased me. I'm not a huge history buff, but Midway has long been an interesting battle for me. What puzzled me is the way they decided to tell the story. Did we really need to see the attack on Pearl Harbor? Everybody knows how the Pacific War started, it could have (and should have, in my opinion) been simply mentioned in a couple of lines of dialogue. Same for the Doolittle raid; while interesting in and of itself, it had literally nothing to do with the titular naval battle. I guess the Shangai studio involved needed to show the good chinese versus the evil japanese.
For crying out loud, it takes 75 minutes of runtime before the start of Midway! I'm not saying I wanted to jump straight in, as a bit of introduction is needed, especially for the lesser known aspects like the intelligence gathering. But it was so drawn out. And to make it worse, when it came to the actual battle, they rushed over some things, like Yorktown surviving two attacks and actually baiting the japanese forces.
I don't know what to say about Best's horizontal bombing, that's just a travesty. I understand needing to embellish stuff for a movie, but dive bombing through a cloud of anti-air is already pretty cool, without ruining it with a super cheesy line.
I'm just glad they didn't push too much with some love story or anything like that.

The visuals were ok. Some scenes looked very good, others not so much. There was definitely inconsistency in the CGI quality, I guess the budget was limited. One thing that bugged me was the planes; they looked great, but they didn't feel real. Almost like they were "slow".

As for the cast, I enjoyed Harrelson and Wilson's performances, nothing special but solid acting. The others were very forgettable.

In the end, it's an ok movie, but hard to recommend.

6/10