Roland Emmerich’s Midway sits on the critics scale of greatness somewhere halfway between “What were they thinking when they made this?” and “God-awful.” It’s a film hoping to capitalize on nostalgia while completely forgetting to include other foundational pillars of great movies like basic storytelling, coherent dialogue, and acting.

Midway is a film that utterly fails in retelling the story of the 1942 Battle of Midway in which American fighters launched an operation that sank several Japanese warships and marked a turning point in the Pacific theater during World War II. Yet, the movie under-delivers.