Journalist en voormalige soldaat J.D. Simkins heeft gehakt gemaakt van de oorlogsfilm Midway. “Je kan beter 2 uur en 8 minuten aan een stuk je hoofd tegen een muur slaan,” schrijft hij in zijn recensie voor de Military Times.

Ook op sociale media ging Simkins tekeer. “Wat is de slechtst geschreven film die je ooit hebt gezien?” tweette hij. “Doe dat maal 200. Een chimpansee die Amerikaanse gebarentaal leert, kon een beter script geschreven hebben.”

“Het script, de research, het fact-checking, de terminologie, de chronologie, het acteerwerk, de CGI, het geluid; elke afdeling die bij deze film betrokken was, zou naar de ruimte moeten verbannen worden,” voegt hij eraan toe.

Lees Simkins recensie hier en bekijk zijn tirade hieronder:

Midway. Was. Just. God. Awful.

— Jon (@jon_simkins) November 8, 2019

Scene: Pearl Harbor.

"What's going on?"
"The Japanese are attacking us."

Cut scene.

— Jon (@jon_simkins) November 8, 2019

Also, according to "Midway" accents, every person from America is either from the Bronx or a country hick.

— Jon (@jon_simkins) November 8, 2019

Woody Harrelson is obviously the most talented cast member here, but he had very little screen time.

This means the best acting in this film was done by the CGI Dauntless dive bombers. Because they had no lines. Therefore, best by default.

— Jon (@jon_simkins) November 8, 2019

This screening, by the way, was attended by a 94-year-old Midway veteran who was on the Yorktown

Imagine surviving that hell just to sit through this portrayal of what you endured

It's like having a movie about the November 2004 Battle for Fallujah directed by Pauly Shore

— Jon (@jon_simkins) November 8, 2019

-27/5 stars

— Jon (@jon_simkins) November 8, 2019

Emmerich dedicated "this film to the Americans and Japanese who fought at Midway."

The genocide and wartime atrocities committed by fanatical Japanese against Chinese civilians – not to mention the treatment of American POWs, would give me pause on that one.

— Jon (@jon_simkins) November 8, 2019

The entire Pearl Harbor sequence felt like a Transformers movie. SO much CGI, and not even good CGI. Early 2000s style. Expected Optimus Prime to pop out any second. "USS ARIZONA, ROLL OUT!"

— Jon (@jon_simkins) November 8, 2019

https://twitter.com/simkinsjourno/status/1192842901497110529?s=20

This writing. This research. This fact-checking. The terminology. The timeline. The acting. The CGI. The sound.

Every department who participated in this film should be sent into deep space.

— Jon (@jon_simkins) November 8, 2019

Here is the actual review to accompany this thread: https://t.co/lzp4yRzJ0N pic.twitter.com/YvoAMxowzl

— Jon (@jon_simkins) November 9, 2019

Bron: IndieWire