Review of Amelia

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Produced by and starring Hillary Swank, Amelia is a gorgeous biopic featuring pretty vistas and period details.  However, while the performances are passable, the characters, and thus their motivations, never show much depth.  To be sure, Amelia Earhart is a feminist hero, but Amelia fails to inspire when it skims through her accomplishments with dull obligation.  The movie glosses over Earhart’s feelings—for the loves in her life, not to mention for flying, too; instead, it dutifully recreates her final radio transmissions, punctuated by the mind-numbing repetition of her call sign.  Circumnavigation of the earth shouldn’t be so boring.