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Fresh:19
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Average Rating:4.4/10
Consensus: Amelia takes the compelling raw materials of its subject’s life and does little with them, conventionally ticking off Earhart's accomplishments without exploring the soul of the woman.
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $8,340,499
Synopsis: Visionary. Lover. Dreamer. Fighter. Legend. Icon. AMELIA. An extraordinary life of adventure, celebrity and continuing mystery comes to light in AMELIA, a vast, thrilling account of legendary... [More]
Starring: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston
Director: Mira Nair
Amelia reminds us how little we really know about the lives of famous achievers who changed the world, and underlines the power of biography on screen. It's a creatively and technically accomplished film with thrills and emotional action in equal measure
Top CriticRomance edges ahead of adventure or characterisations and as a result, despite a soaring lead performance by Hilary Swank, the film suffers from a fatal dose of melodrama
Top CriticNot so much a film as it is the world's dullest diorama brought to semi-life.
Although it has moments that soar, the movie as a whole never quite gets off the ground
Reduces the story of this feminine icon into a typical Hollywood romantic triangle, albeit one with some beautifully staged aerial set pieces.
In its effort to be one of the first Oscar-bait titles out of the gate, the stately but sterile Amelia ends up stumbling over its own feet.
The movie is like a plane you see off in the distance: You recognize it's a plane but its details are indistinct.
In one fell swoop, Mira Nair and company have set the genre back 64 years. That's probably some kind of accomplishment.
A fine tribute to an American pioneer, but I feel sure that Earhart's story merits, and would reward, a more searching and thoughtful exploration.
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Director Mira Nair stays within the safe parameters [of the biopic]in bringing the life of Amelia Earhart to the screen.
Eventually I just wanted her to crash the damn plane so I could go home already.
Wwhy does such an exciting life make such a dull movie?
Those expecting a stirring portrait of a feminist pioneer will be disappointed by the ethereal ambiguity of 'Amelia.'
Amelia is handsome yet predictable and high-minded -- not a dud, exactly, but too proper, too reserved for its swaggering subject.
Top CriticIt’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.
Smotheringly conventional
So what happens when the audience gets disconnected? They get bored. They lose focus. In a two hour movie this can be devastating.
A dull, torturous bore. Could Earhart's life really have been this uninteresting?
What a fresh but sorrowful journey.
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