However, the pacing of all this exposition happens so swiftly that the emotion of a beat is often lost in the perpetual drum of information and visual stimulus. There's even an attempt to dip into the motivations and strategies of enemy combatants Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Etsushi Toyokawa) and Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi (Tadanobu Asano), though this effort feels half-hearted as Midway presents much of the carnage the Japanese forces caused, and abruptly tries to rewrite history to credit Americans with inventing the kamikaze mission. The film also invited us into the bowels of aircraft carriers, the bellies of submarines, and the cockpits of planes to understand what all this was like for the men in the heat of battle. But Midway focuses on arguably too many storylines, taking us into the secret conferences, code-cracking offices, and tense war rooms of the officers to understand the strategy, intel, and obstacles the American forces faced. The story roughly centers on hotshot Navy pilot Lieutenant Dick Best (Ed Skrein), whose never-say-die attitude makes him admired and feared by those who fly with him. Play Tooke ambitiously tries to reconstruct the six months between Pearl Harbor and Midway through stories both personal and political. The grief and rage experienced by the survivors will drive all that follows, as Midway explores its titular battle by bounding between a number of decorated sailors, soldiers, pilots, and officers. The grim toll of Decemis captured in PG-13-level horror, which means little onscreen violence, brief blood, but plenty of fire and bodies lying lifeless as well as one dramatic shot of a once handsome officer burnt beyond recognition. Emmerich takes us onto the ships being assaulted by Japanese dive bombers, onto the coast where the sailors' families huddle inside for safety, and high into the skies with fighter pilots rush to intervene. Written by Wes Tooke, Midway's inciting incident and first major action sequence is the attack on Pearl Harbor. Yet for all its moxie, action, and heroics, Midway falls far short of greatness. It features a wide array of American heroes, the daunting opposition of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and one of the most decisive naval battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
In that sense, the Battle of Midway seems perfectly suited to an Emmerich adaptation.
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