This limp biopic may inspire you to reach for the air sickness bag.
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11/13/09
Amelia (2009)
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Reviews Counted:138
Fresh:28
Rotten:110
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: $13,766,323
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
Reviews for Amelia
Nowhere is there any sign of the passion that Amelia must have had.
11/13/09
Amelia was a great adventurer and an inspirational woman. But you would hardly know it from this uninspiring romantic slush.
11/13/09
Top CriticWoodenly 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.
11/13/09
The look of the movie – suave Art Deco lines and 1930s fashions – is blameless, though helpless to counter the Ron Bass screenplay, guaranteed to drain the life out of any drama it touches.
11/13/09
Amelia is never less than watchable thanks to gorgeous cinematography and strong performances but the script's insistence on playing it safe prevents it from becoming the film it could have been.
11/13/09
Last time Swankatron went a-courting awards, she did so with the amazing Million Dollar Baby. But this biopic of legendary pilot Amelia Earhart is a hundred times blander.
11/13/09
What should have been a soaring, inspirational, complex epic has been grounded by bad storytell ADVERTISEMENT ing, chocolate-box visuals, rubbish star turns and another awful US accent from a Ewan McGregor.
11/13/09
This terrific true story has been so overproduced that there's virtually no life left in it
11/12/09
... it is a film that fails to soar even a little bit despite being about one of the greatest flyers in the history of the planet.
11/11/09
Amelia is a film that could have been great, but instead is an average film about an extraordinary person.
11/08/09
Not so much a film as it is the world's dullest diorama brought to semi-life.
11/06/09
Although it has moments that soar, the movie as a whole never quite gets off the ground
11/03/09
Reduces the story of this feminine icon into a typical Hollywood romantic triangle, albeit one with some beautifully staged aerial set pieces.
11/03/09
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.
11/02/09
The movie is like a plane you see off in the distance: You recognize it's a plane but its details are indistinct.
10/31/09
In one fell swoop, Mira Nair and company have set the genre back 64 years. That's probably some kind of accomplishment.
10/31/09
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.
10/31/09
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10/30/09
Top CriticDirector Mira Nair stays within the safe parameters [of the biopic]in bringing the life of Amelia Earhart to the screen.
10/29/09
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