Have I missed something or has the film?

Rating: 5/10 (25 January 2016)

Bit of a delayed review since its been out for a few years now but having watched it on Amazon Prime last night I feel that I need to get the pain off my chest by talking it through. It might even save a few hours of your life too.
The first joke of the film is that it is somehow on 7.3 on IMDb. Bizarre to say the least. I have a lot of time for Stiller, and the other actors are decent. It looks nice, all shiny and HD so clearly someone wanted a quality product. Which makes me wonder how the story got cleared in the first place....
The story is all about a dreamer, someone who makes stuff up to pretend to be more than he is. But he then proceeds to actually do a whole host of unrealistic stuff (listed below) that would challenge an expert let alone a dislikeable idiot with seemingly bottomless funds. This brings me to the first point - all this only makes sense when you consider that it is all in his head. Essentially a fantasy within fantasy nestled somewhere within the Matrix. I am still trying to think where the break point was and I can only imagine that it occurred on the station platform at the very beginning.
If this is indeed the case then Stiller must have binned the idea and just stuck to the callous product placement funded nightmare that he has made.
There are hundreds of issues and here are a few: - It would be amazing if people could actually do a 'transition' in the time it took Life Magazine. - With his 16 years experience he would get a job so quickly. - How many people with 16 years service wouldn't be keen to take the redundancy. - Why would a kid in Iceland switch his virtually new longboard for a dirty Stretch Armstrong. And his parents actually let him do it (even if they were in a rush). - The skate scene was stupid but made more so by the fact that his tie would have broken on the second corner. - He disrespect for people's property is amazing. He takes the only bike at the dock, crashes it into a post (even though it doesn't look damaged) and then proceeds to walk. No matter about the litter, the fact that the bike is unlikely to be returned and that he is completely oblivious to anyone else even when he isn't daydreaming. - He ignores the panicked hotel owner even though he clearly has something to say (btw the guy speaks epic English only 15mins later). -The hotel owner lets him walk away into the volcano for however long but then drives after him to pick him out of it. - Why doesn't Walter just go to the nearest airfield where the yellow plane will land? - Mitty jumps out of the helicopter despite not being anywhere near the boat. Even if he had jumped onto the boat the injuries would have been severe. No lifejacket, no drysuit. How did the pilot expect the radio parts to survive the fall? A flipping rope ladder maybe? - He loses their radio gear and never apologises. - The shark appears ten seconds after he goes in the water but the small boat crew take 5 mins to drive across to him. Even though he would have been long dead from the cold. - He apparently doesn't have to tread water. - The Pilot is suddenly remarkably sober by the time they arrive at the boat. - Why does he travel via Yemen to Afghanistan? Where did he get the time and cash to do all this? - Where did he get his training and gear to go higher than the Sherpa chaps? - How come the 4 Sherpas with Sean Penn didn't have the same problems? - Why did Sean Penn visit Mitty's mum but never bother to see him? - The photo isn't even that good, it would never have been chosen anyway. Plus why was Sean Penn spying on Mitty? - Product placement is ridiculous. - How come the eharmony guy is bordering on stalking? Has he heard about data protection? - Mitty is such a douche bag that he even throws away the wallet. - In my opinion this film was damaging to the LIFE legacy.
And on and on infinitum. Stupid film with stupid errors that deserves a sub 6 on IMDb -actually makes you think the studio must be fixing the scores just to try and get some of the budget back....
For all you 10/10 people out there - even if this film blew your mind it isn't even worth a 8 because of the product placement.