Predicting The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of 2019's Remaining Blockbusters

7. Midway (38%)

The latest from director Roland Emmerich, Midway is a World War II-set action flick that will focus on the famous titular battle, which took place in 1942.

While big-budget war movies do tend to review extremely well (Dunkirk, Fury, Saving Private Ryan), as do the smaller, more dramatic efforts (Hacksaw Ridge, American Sniper, The Hurt Locker), Midway will probably be an exception - mainly on account of the man behind the camera.

Emmerich's movies always receive bad reviews from critics, from Independence Day: Resurgence (29%) to White House Down (51%) and even the somewhat fondly remembered The Day After Tomorrow (44%). In fact, his last non-rotten movie was The Patriot, which released all the way back in 2000 - and even then, it only just scraped onto the fresh side of the scale, with a 61% score.

Midway looks like business as usual from the director: a spectacle-heavy, thoughtless beast of an action movie that should prove very entertaining, but likely won't offer much more beyond that. If this one isn't rotten, it'll be one of the biggest surprises of the year.

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