Daydream Believer

Rating: Null/10 (20 January 2014)

The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty is an extremely frustrating film to review. It's a film that as I sit here typing, I realize made me more mad than any other film of the 21st century thus far. This may make me sound like I completely hated it. On the contrary, it's so frustrating because I could not quite reach the level of hating it. This is due to the fact that there are two or three incredibly profound moments spread wildly throughout the film that made me think "why can't the whole film be like this?" This is made all the more maddening by the fact that director and star Ben Stiller along with screenwriter Steve Conrad who did the excellent The Weather Man and the grossly overlooked The Promotion are obviously trying as hard as they can to make a great film. From the start---one can even see the strain in Stiller's face to make a truly remarkable film. Unfortunately, the film he has made is anything but.
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