Review – Amelia

Amelia Earhart gets the standard Hollywood biopic treatment, a picture that skips like a stone across the surface of her life without providing detail or insight that might have made the title character seem interesting or even human. Hilary Swank did a better job of looking the part than she did playing the woman, which didn’t exactly help. I suppose if you had to do a report on the aviator for a middle school history class, this would give you enough detail to complete the assignment. But otherwise it’s expensive, slickly-produced, visually interesting but almost completely devoid of anything that would have made it a worthwhile experience. Earhart deserved better. See if desperate