Story of some sort

Rating: 5/10 (2 January 2014)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a bit embarrassing one. It's great from visual POV, camera work is great, touch of CGI is relevant and added with a manner. However there's a simple plot problem – it's inconsistent and separated. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty looks like a group of several separated stories and clips with only one obvious connection between - Walter Mitty and various foggy ideas behind. Yes, there're a lot of great moments in those scenes and some of them can be rated from good to excellent but we aren't talking about them like various episodes from Walter Mitty series. It's not a series or one super-long trailer.
Movie pretends to be an enlightening show for some reason so it'd be great to put one big idea there. There're a lot of hints to many ideas but all those hints are hardly visible behind various scenes and confusing reveals.
I definitely expected much more from this one but movie eventually failed to be holistic. Movie feels like questionable book of many chapters "how to improve your life" than a one big movie. I definitely didn't want to buy that book.
It's worth to watch on a screen anyway because visual part is stunning. Mr. Stiller made a good job so let's support his efforts.