review of beginning-only

Rating: 7/10 (29 June 2014)

It is creative and so far I like it. I wanted to post this where the writer would see it.
There is an historical inconsistency in the beginning. Life Magazine (which I used to enjoy for the photographs) went out of business in 1972. Dumbledore did not first appear in J.K. Rowling's novel until 1997. "Walter" tells a guy in the elevator "beards look good on Dumbledore, not on you" then he walks into the Life Magazine office, which is being bought by a dot.com. But there was no world wide web in 1972, that was before there was any Windows, or personal computers. The reference to being bought by a dot.com in what is suggested to be the early 70s also is a plot failure. There should be some link between late 60s to early 70s attire, graphics and the dot.com boom, which occurred 20 years later, but there isn't. So we are asked to file this inconsistency away and keep watching. The voices he does, the special effects that sprout out of situational remarks is funny, a bit Woody Allen, but original in form.
The reminder that "film" was once sacred to photographers (blood stained and sent with a handwritten note) is good. I'll keep watching and perhaps I can update later.
I did not check the spoiler box because I have not seen the plot yet, we know from the summary that "Walter Mitty" is a day dreamer.