The biopic of Amelia Earhart with Hillary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor and Christopher Eccleston.
OK first off I’ll admit that I’m biased in that there are gorgeous scenes of vintage flying machines and that automatically rates it above average for me, but although it’s not as bad as some critics say, it’s still indeed rife with inaccuracies and I get the feeling, while I enjoyed it, that it’s a missed opportunity.
Mira Nair is no Scorsese, and her Amelia is far from being the parallel to The Aviator that it certainly had the potential to be. Her film seems to go through the motions, when Earhart’s life was so extraordinary for her times that this production could have been much, much more.
I also get the feeling it would have been a better movie without stars. Gere and Eccleston admittedly pull the best performance of the lot, but the latter is the only one I saw as Noonan. Speaking of whom I’m glad they didn’t the easy way and portray as a drunkard he’s so unfairly often thought as. The others I saw as themselves playing the part.
All in all, it’s an average, it’s nice but dull, it lacks life. What saves it is the score and above all, the film’s splendid photography. The scenes of the Electra flying over Africa are dreamy. 
Here’s the L12 they use to stand in for Amelia’s L10:
Beautiful, isn’t it?
