Kon Tiki Reviews

An engaging odyssey with a stunning cinematography that uses an appropriate large depth of field to efficiently explore the vastness of the high sea. Also, the characters are complex and well defined in their motivations, in a story that can also be very tense.

A masterfully crafted adventure film, "Kon-Tiki" elaborates off the true story and Academy Award winning documentary about a man bent on proving his theory that in pre-Columbian time, South Americans could have sailed to Polynesia on wooden rafts and settled there. A highly unpopular theory and what most people thought would be a death sentenced equates to a highly entertaining and effective expedition. With impressive visuals and graphics throughout the entire film, including sharks and whales that rival that of "Life Of PI", and a completely convincing and powerful performance from Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen as Thor Heyerdahl, "Kon-Tiki" is not only Norway's most expensive film ever, it is also Norway's highest grossing film of 2012, and easily one of my favorite foreign films of the year.

A true story about Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl who attempted to prove that Polynesia was settled by people from Peru and not Asia, and builds a raft to recreate the journey. It's actually really good. Admittedly, it gets a bit melodramatic at times and probably plays up more tension than may have happened, but it's still a film where you find yourself rooting for the people on the raft to succeed in their journey. Recommended.

Based on the life of a guy whose book really captured me during the summer of my seventh grade year and probably the original Indiana Jones.

I loved it and so did the friends I was with. I hadn't read the book & didn't know the story in advance, & was fascinated by it all and the fact that it was TRUE. From the pre-trip planning through the trip itself, it was exciting/interesting/suspenseful & visually gorgeous. One of the few movies I've seen recently that wasn't just ok-ho-hum. Go see this movie.

It's a great story. Love it! I'll give it 9 out of 10

Adventurous as it may have been, this true tale of Thor Heyerdahl falls short in innovation. An enjoyable story, with some very intense moments that were just that, moments. Never did I feel the dispair I'm sure the men on the raft felt 50 days into their cross-oceanic float. A worthy watch, but nothing out of the blue (pun intended).

Amazingly enjoyable.

Good, but not very good. The film provides entertainment, but with many loopholes. If you can ignore the loopholes, which is quite hard to, then you might love it, but otherwise, the film is just an above average entertainer.

Bitter-sweet, and uplifting. Just the way I like it. ;)

It is the Scandinavian version of Life of Pi - instead of an Indian boy, a tiger, a zebra, and an orang utan, there are (mostly) hunky Norwegian men adrift on a raft, battling the elements (and sometimes each other) at the open sea for months. Its action sequences deliver despite an otherwise mellow screenplay.

A good story about the Norwegian Thor Heyerdal, this is a good movie in a modern setting. Kon tiki deliverts in spades!

Entertaining and interesting, but it could've done a lot more.

Not really understand what it is talking about.

An excellent true-life adventure tale. Some of the acting is a little over the top, but still a must see.

Well done story of heyerdahl's 5000 mile crossing pacific. especially interactions between six crew for 100 plus days of alternating boredom and terror. But the all survived.

wasn't this all done before in 1951? Did it need doing again?

kon tiki..more like shark tiki