Amelia is a perfectly sound biopic, well directed and acted, about an admirable woman.
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10/22/09
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Amelia (2009)
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Reviews Counted:140
Fresh:29
Rotten:111
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: $14,133,329
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
Top CriticTwo-time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank can’t give any lift to Amelia, a soggy, un-engaging biopic.
10/21/09
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.
10/23/09
With any luck this biopic of Amelia Earhart will also vanish without a trace.
10/22/09
Told in final-flight flashback (naturally) with cumulus cloud scene wipes (of course!), Earhart’s life is reduced to a series of solemnized wide-screen tableaux populated by locale-specific extras acting as starstruck filler.
10/21/09
Top-flight portrayal of the aviator by Hilary Swank is an instant bio classic.
10/18/09
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10/30/09
The period detail is brilliantly brought to life, but the film is superficial, lacking the passion of its heroine.
11/11/09
Amelia was a great adventurer and an inspirational woman. But you would hardly know it from this uninspiring romantic slush.
11/13/09
Wwhy does such an exciting life make such a dull movie?
10/26/09
Top CriticWhat 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
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
Gere and McGregor are fine actors, but Nair uses them like the expendable males (Zachary Scott, Franchot Tone, et al) who stood back and let Bette Davis and Joan Crawford do all the heavy lifting back in the day.
10/22/09
Swank has fun in the role - I haven't seen her smile this much in years - but she isn't given much complicated to do besides frustrate her friends when she digs in her heels.
10/19/09
less engaging than a game of connect-the-dots, which is, essentially, all this is
10/24/09
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
11/05/09
Swank’s moving performance, the period dressing and beautiful planes all appeal, but dramatically it doesn’t really soar.
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
History can weigh heavily on a filmmaker, and that is what happens with Amelia, a disappointing rendering of the remarkable life of Amelia Earhart.
10/22/09
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
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