Beatriz Becker

A great film that allies the latest visual effects to classic, sound storytelling. Midway finds the exact balance between the micro and macro views of events leading up to and culminating in the battle of Midway. It shows these through the eyes of a handful of men we relate to, but without losing sight of the bigger picture. The Japanese are portrayed respectfully, as an enemy with great qualities as well as great faults; and the actors and dialogue in those scenes are all truly Japanese. Refreshingly, there is no politically correct agenda to this film: no anachronic feminism or artificially inserted homossexual issues. I thought they didn't make them like this any more. I was mistaken. They do.