Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Mia Wasikowska
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
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When it comes to biopics, the audience is always teetering on a fine line between learning the facts and being entertained. Usually, by their inherent nature of being fact-based stories, biographical adaptations can succumb to this and either tell a very informative story or comp...( read more)
I remember reading an article on what is considered to be a surefire oscar winner, "Amelia" had three of those things going for it. Bio-pic, main character dying (Um... spoiler alert.) and Hilary Swank. Problem is they could have made Amelia Earhart a mentally challenged lesbian ...( read more)
Traditional inspirational drama, though lavish and immaculate production, with lush aerial landscapes, lovely sepia-tinged art deco style, and captivating scenes of Earhart's journeys to Africa and the Middle East. Hilary Swank's performance is as good as it gets. She has a tough...( read more)
Ahh. If only a movie about Amelia Earhart could be half as exciting as her life seemed to be.
Amelia was just boring. Sometimes flashing back and forth is good, sometimes not so much. Amelia is the later. Flat.
The movie, even with this spectacular cast, doesn't allow for att...( read more)
This movie was almost a snoozefest. Great casting of Swank since she looks just like her and has her mannerisms. But the movie is almost too boring in spots and fails to take off. There was however some story points in this I had no idea of like her affair with Gene Vidal (Gores ...( read more)
SLOW, AND HISTORICALLY INACCURATE. SHE NEVER HAD AN AFFAIR WITH GENE VIDAL
Not very entertaining, but had its moments. I do appreciate that they were able to give it a suspenseful ending despite her story being well known.
it was good. made me very interested in the whole story. and i love ewan mcgregor.
a biopic on a female that rocked the world with her adventures and dam right persistence.a role model for women all over the world.a woman to inspire and aspire to.
a good story and a great cast make this film worth watching.there is also some great archive footage throughout.
It'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. full review
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. full review
"Who wants a life imprisoned in safety?" Amelia asks in a voice-over. And you want to shout, "This movie does, honey." There's not a real or spontaneous minute in it. full review
Director Mira Nair dresses that up with visual grace, with shots of clouds and sky that are beautiful and elusive enough to escape the tinge of cliche. But the basic bones of the story are the problem... full review
Amelia is a conventional, competent and often very pretty film; it's just never as interesting as the woman at its center. full review
Amelia goes airborne but never fully soars. It's hampered by a too-reverential portrait of the record-breaking aviator. full review
Amelia leaves you wondering how its abundantly gifted director, Mira Nair, and its Oscar-winning star, Hilary Swank, could have been complicit in such clumsiness. full review
Amelia is a perfectly sound biopic, well directed and acted, about an admirable woman. full review
Swank's resemblance to Earhart is uncanny, but the result is verisimilitude without engagement %u2014 a risk-taker's story told entirely without narrative risk, and a movie that consequently never tak... full review
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