It's not a good movie. While being historically accurate, the problem of "Midway" is that it doesn't depict the battle in apprehensible way. So you watch some airplanes fly, so you see the flack, so you look at some not great SGI aircraft carriers and listen to a story of how USA has trapped the japs. Then you see more airplanes fly, and further more airplanes fly, and even more airplanes, but what exactly has been happening is never explained. In fact I watched the movie, understood nothing, then I watched 20 minutes documentary on YouTube that explained everything that happened in the battle of Midway very thoroughly and then I said, "oooh yeah, oh that was really what was going on, ooh these airplanes were the first squadron, and those where the second squadron, etc. and now it makes sense, oh yeah. Now I see the movie is true to the story". But that is exactly the problem. Why would I need to see 3 hour long movie which doesn't tell what exactly happened if I could easily be more entertained and informed if I saw a documentary movie. Really, on youTube they have great videos, depicting the Midway battle, with maps, detailed explanations and animations that are far more interesting than this... thing.