It's just OK

Rating: 7/10 (31 December 2013)

This is an OK film, I suppose, but it didn't move me at all, and I found it no more than somewhat entertaining. Given the theme and message, this is a movie I should have loved.
It's hard for me to identify what the problem was exactly. Part of it, perhaps, is that the dreamed adventure sequences were too powerful; the real adventure sequences too unrealistic. Much of it felt too artificial, too movie-ish.
The evilness of the bearded guy was too cartoonish. The subplot about the missing picture was not right. The extended e-Harmony subplot didn't feel right either.
We don't really get much insight into Mitty's thinking at the point when he decides to fly to Greenland. The suddenness of his transformation felt too sudden.
I'm sorry, but you can't just fly to another country and start doing these amazing physical things, especially if you don't train. I mean he skateboards 16 km downhill and is barely breathing hard by the time he's finished. He jumps into freezing cold water and fights off a shark, but doesn't require medical attention afterwards. In real life he'd be in severe shock after that. Later he outdrives a pyroclastic flow, which is quite impossible. Climbing a mountain in the Himalayas just like that is not something you can do either.
Anyway, I think you get the picture. It's worth about 6/10, but I'm going to bump it up because I believe in the idea of life transformation. There are many Walter Mittys in the world. Get offline and get out there.