While Amelia was no airhead, the film flies above the fray, barely skimming the surface of a life and time, including traumatic world wars, the Great Depression and her mystery disappearance.
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Amelia (2009)
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Reviews Counted:141
Fresh:29
Rotten:112
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.
Rated: PG [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Oct 23, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $14,195,118
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
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Reviews for Amelia
It has beautiful cinematography, a star performance that is shocking in its authenticity, a careful eye for nuance and detail and an irresistible blend of action and romance that should spell automatic success.
12/10/09
Top CriticWatching Ms. Swank struggle to emote through carefully-patterned enunciation is an exercise in patience.
12/06/09
Never takes off.
11/28/09
Amelia provides only a cursory look at Earhart's commercialization, more a way to delineate her marriage troubles than investigate her self-image or her treatment as a pop star.
11/19/09
When it takes to the skies Amelia really soars with thrilling recreations of Earhart’s solo flights but when it returns to earth all that remains is soap opera.
11/13/09
Swank’s moving performance, the period dressing and beautiful planes all appeal, but dramatically it doesn’t really soar.
11/13/09
Inoffensive, arcane and ultimately rather sweet, ‘Amelia’ is one to take your grandmother to.
11/13/09
Hilary Swank is forced to deliver dialogue that sounds as if it was written in Chinese and then translated into English by a computer.
11/13/09
A tinny and barnacled affair, showcasing a peculiarly awful performance from Hilary Swank.
11/13/09
If you’re the kind of person who deplores the modern vogue for debunking historical figures, and who welcomes the opportunity to indulge in heroic feats and lush landscapes... then this is the film for you.
11/13/09
The movie is so dragging and dull that it's a squandered opportunity.
11/13/09
[Earhart's] trajectory from bubbling wannabe to national treasure is never less than compelling thanks to a no-nonsense performance from Swank.
11/13/09
An extraordinary life winds up feeling like a series of random blips on the radar screen.
11/13/09
For a movie that desperately wants to be inspirational, Mira Nair's Amelia is a disappointingly earthbound hagiography.
11/13/09
This limp biopic may inspire you to reach for the air sickness bag.
11/13/09
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
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.
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
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