Amelia (2009)
Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Mia Wasikowska
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
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PG, 2 hrs.
Directed by:
Mira Nair
Release Date: Oct 23, 2009
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Wow. I haven't been that bored in a long time. Sure, Amelia Earhart did amazing things for aviation and is an inspiration to many, but this was just a snorefest. I couldn't get myself into this movie at all and it didn't grab my attention at all. I l... (read more) Wow. I haven't been that bored in a long time. Sure, Amelia Earhart did amazing things for aviation and is an inspiration to many, but this was just a snorefest. I couldn't get myself into this movie at all and it didn't grab my attention at all. I love planes and flying but this was a big let down. We flipped a coin to see this movie (best out of three) - this coin will now be destroyed for the better of mankind.
It was a part of history that I didn't know much about, but it could have been told in a 30 min movie. Two hours for this felt really dragged out.
Don't you just HATE it when you're so excited to see a movie, and all it does it let you down like a child in class on "Take your daughter to work day"
RICHARD GERE..... DID HIS THING IN NICK SPARKS MOVIE THAT WAS ONNCE A NOVEL....
I really liked this movie! It had a few slow moments, but all in all it was really good.
Hillary Swank plays the eponymous Amelia Earheart, who, despite being able to handle a plane, possessed no sense of direction. Despite her notable deficiency, Earhart is determined to use a small plane to go hunting for aliens, which she believes ar... (read more) Hillary Swank plays the eponymous Amelia Earheart, who, despite being able to handle a plane, possessed no sense of direction. Despite her notable deficiency, Earhart is determined to use a small plane to go hunting for aliens, which she believes are invading Earth. After crashing into the ground and dying a horribly painful death, a number of feminist groups begin a wild cover up suggesting that Earhart was a person of notoriety and accomplishment, and blames the entire debaucle on the NAACP, kicking off decades of inter-gender-racial tensions between the two groups.
This movie was awful. I feel like two hours of my life had been murdered out of me.
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Woodenly acted and grinningly bland, this Amelia Earhart life story turns Hilary Swank and Richard Gere, playing the aviatrix's publisher husband, into virtual Thunderbirds puppets.full review
Wwhy does such an exciting life make such a dull movie?full review
It's all so glancing and superficial that the movie doesn't seem to have a present tense. It goes by like coming attractions. It is, however, a treasury of bad biopic dialogue.full review
Critics may balk but Amelia is old fashioned in the best sense and soars as a big, beautiful and sweeping motion picture biography about a true American legend.full review
"Who wants a life imprisoned in safety?" Amelia asks in a voice-over. And you want to shout, "This movie does, honey." There's not a real or spontaneous minute in it.full review
Director Mira Nair dresses that up with visual grace, with shots of clouds and sky that are beautiful and elusive enough to escape the tinge of cliche. But the basic bones of the story are the problem here.full review
Amelia is a conventional, competent and often very pretty film; it's just never as interesting as the woman at its center.full review
Amelia goes airborne but never fully soars. It's hampered by a too-reverential portrait of the record-breaking aviator.full review
Amelia leaves you wondering how its abundantly gifted director, Mira Nair, and its Oscar-winning star, Hilary Swank, could have been complicit in such clumsiness.full review
Amelia is a perfectly sound biopic, well directed and acted, about an admirable woman.full review
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