1. Dialogue: makes the worst 1950's WW2 movie sound like a work of Shakespeare 2. Action: Bad effects, but the action takes all of two minutes and is probably the best part of the movie 3. Plot: Utterly incomprehensible-the "twist" at the end turned a mediocre survival plot into a confusing attempt at an esoteric understanding of death...or life...or something? 4. Acting: I've seen better and less wooden performances from junior high drama clubs

Two stars for two minutes of passable action sequences. Otherwise its a waste of time

Are you reading this because you wanted to see Midway? Well this is another movie, and I just wasted an hour on it and even the beer didn't make it any better. It's just horrible: bad CGI, bad acting, I didn't learn anything about the battle of Midway. I wish I could just see a 15 minute documentary about the battle and the 2 guys stranded at sea and whatever happened to them. Other reviews say the depiction of the ships and planes was historically accurate, so I'll give it +3 stars for the CGI and battle scenes, +2 for the story, -3 for making me accidentally see it instead of Midway, and +1 star for helping me forget my problems and feel very sorry for everyone involved in this fiasco.

Almost every aspect of this movie is bad. From the cast dialogue acting and inappropriate music. Judd Nelson and C Thomas Howell are the only famous names and it's sad the way they deliver the dialogue about battle. Instead of showing the battles they just talk about most of them. All the action is some bad air combat and one torpedo drop. We've seen this floating in the sea thing before but this one is like watching paint dry. To crown it all the twist ending is so irritating. If they want to show that there are not many happy endings in war, making us sit through 90 minutes of this deserves a big fat zero.