Life is an adventure of your dreams

Rating: 5/10 (6 November 2014)

Ben Stiller stars and directs The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Its based on a shirt story with Stiller playing a mild mannered negative processor for Life magazine who tends to space out as he lapses into daydreams. He dreams of adventure as his real life is so mundane.
When Life magazine is shutting down he cannot find a negative for the final issue from ace adventurer Sean O'Connell (Sean Penn.) A jerk of an executive brought in for the final days of Life magazine makes fun of him as he strives to find the negative.
In search for the lost negative he travels the world to Greenland, Iceland, Himalayas. He escapes from a Volcano, plays soccer with kids in Afghanistan and views a snow leopard. As his adventure increases his confidence grows and the daydreams lessen.
The film kind of starts out slow, we have those heroic daydreams, we see that Mitty is a kind of dullard. Nice guy but a bit of a loser. Yet he seemed to be an interesting teenager, he used to skate. Wait he can skate, that surely would be a plot point later in the film!
The film is rather jagged, Once it gets going it does flow well at the latter part of the movie. The location shooting in the Nordic countries help. You can kind of predict the ending. There are a few good cameos with Sean Penn standing out in his few scenes.