Review: 'Amelia' sputters and fails to soar

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For a movie about a passionate adventuress, "Amelia" is conventional and oddly tame. Its PG rating seems to hamstring certain aspects of the story regarding Amelia Earhart's love life and the screenplay conveniently omits details about her husband's first wife and children.

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Review: 'Amelia'

News Source: Christian Science Monitor | about 1 month ago

Amelia" is an old-fashioned biopic that doesn't jibe with a newfangled world. Director Mira Nair's devotional take on legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart, played by Hilary Swank, is almost completely lacking in edge, irony, humor, sparks. It's the...
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News Source: Leader Post Online | about 1 month ago

This biopic of 1930s aviatrix Amelia Earhart has a period look but a generic feel: you never get a sense of the era. Hilary Swank has the perfect look as the aviation pioneer whose dream was to fly around the world, and Richard Gere is amiable enough...
Review: 'Amelia' doesn't fly

News Source: CNN | about 1 month ago

Amelia" is a frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about Amelia Earhart that doesn't trust a viewer's independent assessment of the famous woman pictured on the screen. The mystery we ought to be paying attention to is:...
Movie Review: 'Amelia' circles but is sadly off-course

News Source: Sacramento Bee | about 1 month ago

Considering the risks Amelia Earhart took, losing her life in the call of aviation, Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair don't put much on the line in their film biography "Amelia." Swank and Nair play it safe to the point of benumbing this woman's...
Review: "Amelia" has vistas, but lacks vision, passion

News Source: Denver Post | about 1 month ago

It is the summer of 1937...Freckled, with hair cowlicked, not coiffed, the legendary aviator gazes out...Her thoughts, her voice-over, send us back to a time when a plane's arc above a Kansas field established a girl's passion for flight and fueled...
Review: 'Amelia' fails to take flight

News Source: The Mercury News | about 1 month ago

What a terrible shame that studio bigwigs failed to realize from the get-go that "Amelia" was flying in the wrong direction. Someone, anyone, needed to show a dollop of Amelia-style spunk and haul in this big-budget clunker for repairs. The biggest...