Amelia Reviews and Ratings


  • missylaguitao
    December 1, 2009
    missylaguitao
    It's women empowerment movie! I'd like to watch it today.
  • snapesdesire
    November 26, 2009
    snapesdesire
    I thought this film was really well made and wonderfully written but was let down by its savage casting. Swank was unconvincing in her role and although it was a fair effort, she failed to capture the enigma of Amelia. I couldn't help but feel that the lack of energy in this film...( read more) could have been overcome with the casting of a more suitable leading lady. I am reminded of Amy Adam' interpretation of Amilia Earhart and how much life she bought to the character in Battle of the Smithsonian. I also felt that Richard Gere was also mis-cast in this film, believing that the role should have gone to someone a little younger with less of a calming screen presence. I did feel That Ewan McGregor was one of the few that were rightly cast in this film and was impressed with his performance in this supporting role. My overall opinion is that this was a good film that could have been brilliant if it had better suited actors.
  • Garyinsocks
    November 25, 2009
    Garyinsocks
    I am an avaiation fan. this film shows, in a concise fashion, using some flashbacks, the tale of America's most famous Aviatrix. I am glad that I Saw it in the theatre for some of the scenery!
  • Jordan770
    November 21, 2009
    Jordan770
    Amelia Earhart has always been cool to me, I want to see this.
  • sanjurosamurai
    November 17, 2009
    sanjurosamurai
    entertaining and full of great landscapes, the the film fails almost everywhere else. the telling of amelia's life was stale and formulaic, handing us the standard information about amelia's life without digging deeper than what you might find on her wikipedia page. the film ju...( read more)st flows from one event to the next, telling us little about amelia than the surface. the performances were also flat, which suprised me because i find swank to be one of the most delightful actresses of our time. overall a solid watch for a popcorn flick, but could have been excellent and wasnt.
  • hawkledge
    November 17, 2009
    hawkledge
    Traditional inspirational drama, lavish and immaculate production, 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 job but mak...( read more)es her portrayal look easy and shares a great chemistry with Gere.
  • stratjas9
    November 16, 2009
    stratjas9
    Decent telling of this story. Hilary Swank was great in a role that suited her and I always enjoy Richard Gere. Nicely done, entertaining.
  • abedazeez
    November 15, 2009
    abedazeez
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  • lprimavera1958
    November 15, 2009
    lprimavera1958
    I was impressed amazing that she was independent in that generation Hilary Swank did a great job
  • 00Film
    November 14, 2009
    00Film
    2 b honest this waza wet blanket....hillary was good but the fim and itz director where not....realli disaapointment amazing woman but not an amazing film
  • Moonage
    November 14, 2009
    Moonage
    Excellent, easy to watch movie.
  • carnut561
    November 12, 2009
    carnut561
    SLOW, AND HISTORICALLY INACCURATE. SHE NEVER HAD AN AFFAIR WITH GENE VIDAL
  • ed
    November 12, 2009
    ed
    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.
  • kiwicab
    November 9, 2009
    kiwicab
    it was good. made me very interested in the whole story. and i love ewan mcgregor.
  • stevewyllie1
    November 9, 2009
    stevewyllie1
    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.
  • anjhapoel1
    November 8, 2009
    anjhapoel1
    welcome to flixster anjhapoel
  • VALIANT67
    November 7, 2009
    VALIANT67
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  • BigGregoreo
    November 7, 2009
    BigGregoreo
    I didn't want to see this one, but now glad I did. Better than I thought ut it was more of a love story than anything else. End stinks but we knew that.
  • mayinrivera
    November 7, 2009
    mayinrivera
    Are romantic movie like
  • rizzacayan
    November 7, 2009
    rizzacayan



  • taffy19
    November 6, 2009
    taffy19
    Watch this movie for free for those of you that are short on money at http://MoviesWatch.info But if you can afford it go to the theaters and support the movies
  • cenzano38
    November 5, 2009
    cenzano38
    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)achment to the characters. Not even actors like Swank, Gere and McGregor can make the audience any more attached to the characters when a movie is edited this poorly. There are a couple of minutes where the director allows us in, but for only a moment. Then it's back to the grind of watching this scene and then the next. Mira Nair, the director of this..... thing, doesn't really have any great films in her library, and don't think she would have been my choice for something that they had so much to work with.

    This isn't a movie I'm going to sit through again, and if you're expecting an Oscar caliber film, keep searching. This isn't one.
  • minky1012009
    November 3, 2009
    minky1012009
    it looks ok but im not interested soz
  • afbeck4464
    November 3, 2009
    afbeck4464
    Amelia was an ok movie. Nothing too special. Not as good autobiographical as say 'Ray' or ' Walk the Line'. I did learn some things I didn't know about Amelia Earhart, so that's cool. It was boring at times and Hilary Swank didn't have much karisma as some other actresses that co...( read more)uld have taken on this role. Might have been the fake accent she was trying, I don't know. I saw wait for this one on Netflix.
  • jecker
    November 3, 2009
    jecker
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  • marykate55313
    November 2, 2009
    marykate55313
    heck ya i want to see it
  • johnandrewchristie
    November 2, 2009
    johnandrewchristie
    good old fashioned entertainment. Reminds me a lot of the big spectakle films of the 1950's. Very well acted and worth a look
  • realsteve777
    November 2, 2009
    realsteve777
    Its okay. I thought it lacked character development and was a little choppy.
  • flickfever
    October 30, 2009
    flickfever
    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)letely ignore the history and present a dazzling piece of entertainment. Very rarely does a movie come along where you get a balanced dose of both history and "popcorn" value. Sadly, Amelia isn't one of those rare exceptions.

    Although the life of Amelia Earhart (especially the events leading up to her death--or disappearance) is widely regarded, it has never been fully or richly adapted to the screen the way the current Mira Nair-directed film attempts to do. Unfortunately, the movie suffers from having an A-list actress filling some very big shoes--and doing a fine job at it. But the movie really offers no other novelty than the fact that it's being made about 70 years after the events have transpired.

    Sure, the movie is visually stunning and a joy to watch because of its attention to detail; the period clothes, mannerisms and the archival footage used. But the movie really doesn't present anything new or that you didn't already learn in your fourth-grade history class. It simply wraps up the Earhart drama into a tidy little box and puts a big pretty bow on it.

    Since most people already know the outcome of this film, it would have been nice if there had been more of a conflict presented in the film. Perhaps more of the terrifying final dialogue between Earhart's lost plane and flight command on the ground where she was to have landed. Instead, we are dealt a melodramatic love-triangle plot between Earhart, her husband and her flight consultant which was really not an interesting way to pass the time between watching Amelia fli high.

    Overall, the movie was not atrocious (as some of the critics have proclaimed.) The movie is quiant, well-produced and very appealing to those who consider themselves aficionados to Earhart's cause or of aviation in general. But what should have been an epic tale of adventure and high-flying emotions, instead, treads familiar water and flies the turbulent skies of familiarity because of its conventional point-of-view and predictable romantic skew.
  • recruiter89
    October 29, 2009
    recruiter89
    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)Dad) and her recklessness. Richard Gere who I usually like in movies was just okay in this and almost overshadowed by Swank. Ewan Mcgregor was not even necessary in this picture. Plus the disappearance of the Amelia at the end was leaving just as much mystery as the real case. Not great.
  • spiralrayonshorts
    October 29, 2009
    spiralrayonshorts
    rather subpar considering the source material.
  • ashlibug1999
    October 28, 2009
    ashlibug1999
    i might see it dont look to be my type of movie... but ya never know lol
  • louiscabo
    October 28, 2009
    louiscabo
    ....this is a really great movie.it really inspires me a lot!
  • glois1610
    October 27, 2009
    glois1610
    quiero verla por supuesto.
  • mizzfunnye
    October 27, 2009
    mizzfunnye
    dont really care to see this one...looks boring, but interesting if that makes sense
  • chesteruzialko
    October 27, 2009
    chesteruzialko
    would like to see it
  • knightsruleforever
    October 27, 2009
    knightsruleforever
    I seen a free viewing of the movie and really did not like the story line. It seemed to me that the facts were not 100% accurate.
  • botsia
    October 27, 2009
    botsia
    This will be a good movie and should be watched
  • louieyan
    October 26, 2009
    louieyan
    Overall a well-spent couple of hours. Swank as Earhart comes across as real and human, convincing in character.
  • Hexily
    October 26, 2009
    Hexily
    All I can say is "why'?
  • RobynMaher715
    October 26, 2009
    RobynMaher715
    I dont really know if this is worth seeing. And apparently some of it was filmed here at my airport...
  • dindih
    October 26, 2009
    dindih
    this i gat to see!!!!!!!
  • popcornnroses
    October 26, 2009
    popcornnroses
    Visually lush but sometimes slow biopic of Amelia Earhart with Hillary Swank in another potentially Oscar-nominated lead. Richard Gere has his best part in years as Earhart's husband George Putnam. Christopher Eccleston steals the show in the last half as Fred Noonan, Earhart's n...( read more)avigator on her final flight. Top notch score, and visually stunning flight sequences help make this movie and also help propel it to it's inevitable conclusion.
  • billionairemrgreen
    October 26, 2009
    billionairemrgreen
    it look cool as bru awsome!!!!!!!
  • QueenOfTheImaginary
    October 25, 2009
    QueenOfTheImaginary
    ooooo my friend had to do a project on her
  • abbiehnonone
    October 25, 2009
    abbiehnonone
    i want to see it it doesnt play
  • johnd62
    October 25, 2009
    johnd62
    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)and I still wouldn't see it picking up those bald golden men anytime soon. Why because quite simply its not a good movie.
    Not that it didn't have anything to offer, stars a TWO time oscar winner, two highly underrated actors and was directed by Mira Nair. All of which earned their reputations by being risk takers and trying things that are out of their comfort zone. Just within the first 5 minutes, you can pinpoint where they said screw this and play it as close to the "Oscar winners for Dumbies" book as possible.
    The biggest upset here being Swank, an actress I hold in high regard, when challenged can delivers something that puts her in the best of our generation (See "Boys Don't Cry" or Million Dollar Baby") but when not, she's about as interesting as watching paint dry. Whether the voice-overs or the big dramatic speeches its everything thats dull and predictable about oscar season. With really no one in the cast faring much better, someone needs to recommend a f*cking agent to these guys.
    So if I'm ragging on this film so much, why 2 stars. Mostly because for the moments you can stay awake for "Amelia" is quite visual treat. Nair has some breath-taking aerial shots of the world as Amelia travels and as bombastic and over the top the score may be its quite amazing to listen to and probably up there with "Up" for best score of the year. If anything is done right, the look understands Amelia Earhart perfectly. (Seriously if you are to ever see this film, a theatre is the only way too go, once again though with its 2 stars I'm not saying to go see it.)
    While "Amelia" is not quite the cinematic version of the plane wreck of the lead character. (Once again if you didn't see this coming, pick up a bloody history book.) Its still a film of wasted talent and a film that will learn the hard way, after a year where a small indie about the slums of Dubai won BP and a freakin Batman film was almost nominated, (Gotta give credit where its due.) safety first just does not cut it with audiences or voters,
  • SC007
    October 25, 2009
    SC007
    I had a mixed to positive reaction to the film. One the positive, the performances are top notch. Swank is great in the role. I can see her getting an Oscar Nomination however I don't know if she would win. Gere, McGregor, and Eccleston are good in there supporting roles. The cin...( read more)ematography in the film is really good. The music score is also good. On the negative, the pacing was off. The film is still worth seeing, especially for Swank's performance.
  • Ericthewrestler
    October 25, 2009
    Ericthewrestler
    Expected better. The performances were very good though, especially from Hillary Swank.

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