An Uplifting Story About Life and Reality

Rating: 6/10 (29 December 2013)

Everyone has a dream to be something they are not. For Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller), that's to be noteworthy. A chronic daydreamer, Mitty lives a simple life in a New York apartment and goes to his job at Life Magazine where he is in charge of negative photos – a job that he's had for 16 years. Having done basically nothing with his life other than master skateboard tricks as a teenager, Mitty constantly daydreams about being somebody different – an adventurer, a hero, and a romantic.
Mitty's life heats up when he meets Cheryl Melhoff (Kristen Wiig), a recently divorced single mom with an eHarmony profile and a new job at Life. When Life is bought by a big corporate company and decides to move strictly online, jobs, including Mitty and Melhoff's are put in jeopardy. When Mitty can't find a negative from renown photographer Sean O'Connell (Sean Penn) that was scheduled to be the cover for the last print issue of Life, he sets out on an amazing global journey beyond his wildest imagination.
Loosely based on a 1947 movie of the same name, Walter Mitty is your typical, run-of-the-mill feel-good movie. The underlying tone of the movie is obvious – take advantage of everything life has to offer. Going in with an open mind, Walter Mitty is a movie that can definitely give someone a new perspective on life in general.
There honestly isn't much to complain about in Walter Mitty. It's a simple story of one man who lives in his head and has to break his way out. Ben Stiller pretty much plays the same role he does in most of his other movies. Kritsen Wiig is a fine supporting actress, and Sean Penn's surprisingly limited and very few worded role is great. While not anywhere near the best picture of the year, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a good movie about the everyman, and one that is worth a shot.
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