Midway

I was pleasantly surprised by this one! Being a World War 2 history buff I’m both heavily biased towards these types of films but also highly critical and am often disappointed by many films of this genre, like that Pearl Harbor movie with Ben Affleck, which was more about bad acting, being overly dramatic and over the top action. This one felt different, in a good way. First off I like how it did it’s part to inform the audience of events that led up to this historic battle that changed the course of the war, in the US’s favor...6 months after the Pearl Harbor attack that began America’s official entry into the WW2! It didn’t just go right to the battle and skip or rush through key events that led up to it, in order to focus on the main characters, clearly the battle was the main subject here. So time spent with intimate love scenes and background stories with various characters was either nonexistent or minimal, which was very refreshing, especially for families. There was a fair amount of graphic violence, but not overly so. There were charred bodies were quick and fairly distant scenes, enemy airplanes were gunning sailors on their ships and clearly killing or hurting many but more of the aftermath was shown rather than the actual death. Sailors were also seen falling From their ships into the ocean, with a few falling into water that was burning with oil and fuel. So not for young kids. There were displays of courage and pushing forward despite improbable odds and men from both sides were shown dealing with difficulties. There were not a lot of women or diversity but this was the 1940’s. While I do like that women and minorities have been getting more and more screen time, one shouldn’t add women and minorities for diversities sake, in lieu of historical accuracy. Overall a good movie, I definitely recommended this

It's a good family movie. There are some stuff in there where a couple in bed together. There was 2 scene that showed inappropriate pictures on the wall, as the guys were talking.