Military Times Review of "Midway". Ouch.

The Military Times newspaper apparently did not like the move Midway, released just in time for Veterans Day. From their review:

 Use the 2 hours, 18 minutes to instead do something more enjoyable, like repeatedly smashing your face into a wall.

     Like all military stories or scripts written and produced by people with no military background, they try to somehow not offend anyone.

"...the last on-screen wording says, "This film is dedicated to the Americans and Japanese who fought at Midway.”

The same fanatical Japanese military who killed over 40 percent of American prisoners of war or used prisoners for rifle and bayonet target practice? The same who massacred at least 20 million Chinese men, women and children? The same who committed systemic rape of Chinese girls and women using bats, bottles, or bayonets as tools of mutilation before carrying out executions? The same who, according to Ian Toll’s “Conquering Tide,” would have children form into a circle, toss in a live hand grenade and have them play with until it exploded? The same who, when hungry, actually stripped muscle from living humans to eat? The same who used Chinese civilians for testing diseases and pathogens for biological warfare?

Even in the movie, Japanese officers take an American POW, tie rope around his hands that has an anchor attached to the other end, and toss the heavy weight into the Pacific Ocean.

 You might want to avoid seeing the movie with any still living WWII veterans. Or probably not with any veteran, or anyone who is related to or friends with a veteran. Or anyone who knows someone was knows a veteran.

(BUT the same military publication praises a movie that comes out next month about WWI. Watch a trailer for 1917 HERE.) 



UPDATE: someone pointed me to a CBS article about the worst movies of this century (so far). Midway is not on the list, but another film is described his way:

Based on the novel of the same, "Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000" is "the worst movie in living memory," says Time. 

And another:

The fifth "Scary Movie" is "so massively unenjoyable, a hate crime against cinema, a ringing indictment of the depths commercialism will go to in search of the lowest common denominator," says Film.com.

So there.

UPDATE: (Despite that review, Midway had a great opening weekend--- topping th box office for Dr. Sleep!)