The story is amazing, but the movie is boring

Absolute garbage and a total disservice to Amelia Earhart. Even run at double speed it was boring and patronising.

I have to say Hillary Swank was the best actress for this movie. She looked just like her. I think the movie would have been better with other male leads. I enjoyed how they would bring the black and whites to life . Something was king of off. I blame Richard Gere

Either Amelia was the most boring woman on earth or Hilary Swank should have been tarred and feather for her performance. Uhh... but then again I'd probably be off my game if I had to make out with Richard Gere. It' an insult that he's even on the film cover with her.

It's good movie to watch

Surprisingly poor, given the stellar cast. The biography doesn't lend itself to dramatisation, at least not in this account. It's told rather than lived. Interesting to learn the facts - she was very effective in promoting women as pilots and independent in her relationships with men. She comes over as soft here, whereas I imagine she had a much harder edge. A little more imagination would have made this a more enjoyable tale.

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Don't know how is this compare to Aviator! By Dicarpio!

Reaching the passing grade only thanks to the presence of Ewan McGregor (although for very short on-screen time)

Swank's acting and the footage at the end of the show left me wondering if the real Amelia was more headstrong and vocal... Dreams do come true sometimes and at other times, they lead to disappointment and a deep sense of loss... I can only imagine the grief and over-riding guilt of Amelia's greatest supporter - George Putnam, her loving husband.

Apesar do excelente leque de atores, este filme não encontra o equilíbrio necessário para nos contar a história com entusiasmo e emoção.

Une très belle viens raconter, surtout avec la fin intrigante qu'elle a connu, mais un film bourre de petites scenes qui nous sont lance sans avoir le temps de les assimiler. Pour cela, ça m'a fait decroche.

62% Has that Life Time channel, feel that I dislike so much.

This had potential for something great... A woman persevering in a man's world, obstacles and triumphs... This is at best a made for 온라인카지노추천 movie and not a good one at that! Hilary Swank is as stiff as a board or is it bored??

So I'm tardy with this review. Not so. I published it in In Sync magazine in its January 2010 issue-shortly after I viewed this film. Now that my new social media is functioning, I'm publishing it again. It synchronizes with my upcoming short story book Aviators, Adventurers, and Assassins which contains a flagship documentary-style novella that reveals the skullduggery extant on Earhart's last flight, entitled Amelia. (See sheltoncomm.com) I'm an ol' codger. Amelia Earhart was an icon in my youth. As an eight-year old nipper, I remember clearly where I was and what I was doing when I heard on the radio broadcast that Amelia Earhart was missing somewhere near Howland Island in the Central Pacific. Yes, I'm that young. With the massive search conducted by the US Navy, I was confident that they'd find her. To no avail, unfortunately. Accordingly, I have a vested interest in Amelia Earhart. To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway, Amelia is an awful film. It's a great film. Let's explore "awful" first. Amelia is a mishmash of miscellaneous scenes that lack coherence and purpose. This film stumbles along some path I cannot discern. If the viewer does not know the details of Amelia's life, they may well wonder, when the lights come on, What was this film about? Infrequently does Amelia engender empathy. Without empathy, there is no involvement, entertainment, or communication. On the whole, directing and acting are pedestrian-save Swank, from time-to-time. Gere is wooden-not the robust hustler that was George Putnam. I cringed that far, far too many close-ups show the actors staring into space looking at something off screen, or infernally smiling about something we cannot fathom or see. Amelia is more of a romantic film than an autobiographical film of the dynamic aviatrix. Perhaps, I expected too much. Technical errors are myriad. No need to discuss here; there're posted on IMDb. However, I'll discuss a few that particularly vex me. This film overlooks the fact that Amelia Earhart was a mediocre pilot, at best. That's what killed her. She was over confident, stubborn, and had a narcissistic ego. She believed Putnam's publicity. She failed to listen to her mentor, Paul Mantz, about learning Morse code and using the long-range antenna to transmit its signals. She was palpably ignorant about radio procedures and its technical factors. Her refusal to practice radio protocols with her guide ship, the USCGC Itasca is particularly troubling and is the direct reason of her death. The last scene is a disaster-a collage of technical nonsense. Earhart is lost. She cannot find Howland. She is low on petrol. And she cannot communicate with the Itasca with congruity. Again prior knowledge of these few critical minutes is essential to understanding this scene and her fate. If I were directing this last scene, we'd see the Electra from a high-angle, rear shot flying over the ocean and receding in size until it disappears. On the soundtrack, we hear the twin-engines on the Electra purring loudly. As the Electra decreases in size, the volume of the engines reduces in synchronization with the visuals. Mixed with the engine sounds, we faintly hear the jumbled voice radio-communications between Amelia and the Itasca. This voice also fades in volume. Shortly we hear the engines supper, cough, and quit, one by one. Then silence as the Electra disappears from view. It's a great film. I was disappointed that Art Direction did not get a nomination for an Academy Award. Airplanes, props, costumes, and automobiles set an authentic 1930s ambiance. Swank is Amelia-outstanding look-alike with makeup, hairstyle, and clothes. Most of the flying scenes of the ol'-time airplanes are spectacular-even the computer generated. The blending of newsreel footage into the narrative is excellent. Lastly, the Richard Rogers and Lorentz Hart tune Blue Moon sung by a pretend Billie Holiday stirs the soul.

This film shows a profound lack of artistic talent. Aside from everyone smiling like it was a dentistry convention, many of the details are implausible and unrealistic. For example, when her pilots refuse to fly due to a poor weather report, she reads them the riot act, giving some sort of demented pep-talk which gets them going. In real life, any pilot who pushes the weather is not a hero, but a zero. These are only a few of the dumb mistakes that this movie makes.

I never wish to see this movie again.

I never knew the whole story of how she disappeared, so astounding and sad how much risk she took, and a lack in communication would be the line between life and death.

Well this a DNF for me, I just couldn't make it through even though this should have been a good movie. Swank appears to embody Earhart (looks, voice, mannerisms) and I'm a Ewan McGregor fan but this was just boring, pretentious even, with wasted potential of an interesting and intriguing historical figure and a great cast. 09.13 "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."

I wished I had slept!!!!