A movie easy to be misunderstood as a comedy

Rating: 9/10 (1 January 2014)

When I first saw the trailer for that movie, I was like: "Wow, this one has potential." Even when I read several short reviews (DER SPIEGEL, www.reihesieben.de) that were rather negative, I wanted to see for myself. And boy, was I flattened.
The shy Walter Mitty lives a pretty dull life in his flat. He quietly adores his colleague Sheryl Melhoff at his work - the LIFE Magazine. Life gets bumpy when the magazine is changed into an Online-Magazine and the last issue of the paper version will be published. Walter loses the negative of the final cover and has to get it quickly, before the evil Manager Ted Hendricks loses his temper. The search for the negative leads Walter to Greenland, Iceland and Afghanistan, up the Himalaya and back to the USA.
You will get awesome scenery and pictures of the vast ice fields of the Himalaya, the great green plains of Green- and Iceland. The daydreams of Walter Mitty are always embedded into the normal life and can be quite cool (surfing the streets of New York, rescuing a three-legged dog from an explosion,...).
The movie never drifts into the cheap laughs corner and always stays funny in its seriousness. I can recommend this 100% and I can only hope, that the Academy will notice that movie - if its for the camera work or the pictures; it would be great.
You can't see that the movie started back in 2005 and went through several changes in cast and staff.
A nice flick for couples on a quiet romantic evening - go watch it, you won't regret it.