Director Mira Nair stays within the safe parameters [of the biopic]in bringing the life of Amelia Earhart to the screen.
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10/29/09
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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
Eventually I just wanted her to crash the damn plane so I could go home already.
10/27/09
Wwhy does such an exciting life make such a dull movie?
10/26/09
Top CriticThose expecting a stirring portrait of a feminist pioneer will be disappointed by the ethereal ambiguity of 'Amelia.'
10/26/09
Amelia is handsome yet predictable and high-minded -- not a dud, exactly, but too proper, too reserved for its swaggering subject.
10/26/09
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.
10/26/09
Top CriticSmotheringly conventional
10/26/09
So what happens when the audience gets disconnected? They get bored. They lose focus. In a two hour movie this can be devastating.
10/26/09
A dull, torturous bore. Could Earhart's life really have been this uninteresting?
10/25/09
What a fresh but sorrowful journey.
10/24/09
What could be more exciting than a biopic with Hilary Swank playing a world famous aviatrix? Perhaps a movie filled with more passion for dreaming than a screenplay that seems written from Earhart's history-making timelines.
10/24/09
...an unsatisfying, frivolous, insubstantial look at someone whom some think of as an American idol.
10/24/09
less engaging than a game of connect-the-dots, which is, essentially, all this is
10/24/09
A quiet, reserved, and unexpectedly small picture about an aviation pioneer whose historical legacy ... has become larger than life.
10/24/09
The key to selling a story is making people believe it's real. That's the trouble with Amelia -- I didn't buy a minute of it.
10/24/09
The characters look and sound more like animatronic figures at the Air & Space Museum than real-life history makers. Every sanitized, faux-jolly line of script is spoken like it's from a decades-old toothpaste commercial.
10/24/09
The movie is weighted down by a weak and bland script, wooden acting and a sluggish pace. Boredom sets in at the 90-minute mark as a superficial approach makes all the characters seem one-dimensional.
10/24/09
'Amelia' plays less like a movie and more like a timeline.
10/23/09
Near the end though, when they talk about coming home, that almost feels like she's saying, 'Two days to retirement.'
10/23/09
Even a two time Oscar winner like Hilary Swank can't make Amelia soar like it should.
10/23/09
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