Amelia

3.5
Drama, True Story
Better than what the critics complained about. Hilary Swank stars as Amelia Earhart with Richard Gere as her husband, Mr. Putnam with Ewan McGregor as a love interest. The critics really panned this movie. I really liked the ambiance of the late 20’s and 30’s with the costuming and I thought the acting was good. The problem was that although all the individual scenes were excellent, they were not pieced together well and felt disjointed from one another. Isn’t that the director’s fault (Mira Nair – Monsoon Wedding and Namesake)? I think they needed a few more scenes to transition them better. Throughout the film Amelia soars around the world on her ill fated flight with beautiful landscapes below, while the past and “present” of her life are mixed and mingled. They should have done less mixing and mingling and just told the story from start to finish consecutively – and they still could have kept her final flight interspersed throughout. It’s still better than most of the stuff in the theater right now, and I did enjoy it.