The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The story Stiller tells manages to float in a most peculiar, satisfying way.

The momentum Stiller has built up - his character's globe-trotting derring-do, the care and consideration on display in his directing - carries the movie a long way. Falling short of fantastic, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is still a fantasy to enjoy.

It's too airless, too perfect, a dream of connection with humanity that flees contact with actual people.

Impressive landscapes, plus Kristen Wiig's appealing Cheryl, the fellow worker who inflames Walter's passion, make the movie enjoyable enough. Yet its style is a constant bafflement.

This is an ambitious and sometimes effective but wildly uneven adventure that plays like one extended ego trip for Stiller. It feels like a movie by focus group, struggling to find a place between genuinely creative fantasy and audience-pleasing payoff moments.

Palpably well-intentioned, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is nevertheless phony to the core.

If, while watching The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, you start wondering why Ben Stiller is acting strange, the answer comes during the closing credits: "Directed by Ben Stiller."

An amazing movie with lots of message. Full and rich. Wonder those professional critics have watch it at all.

If I tell you that I paid attention to the majority of the movie and understand most things about it, I would be lying. I don't find the plot that eye-catching but since I was not interested at all, I can exactly blame the movie. But still, I found some scenes funny - like the skate one - and the end, for some reason, touched me. So yeah, props to the movie to make me feel something when I was not giving a damn about it (or at least I think I wasn't).

Read the story when I was younger and didn't like it, now I've watched the movie and the scenes are nice and some of them look like Catty Parry's MV but this all this added up didn't help me to like the movie. Guess I'll skip movies if I don't like the books from now on.

A cliched and silly film full of continuity problems and plot **** dreadful to watch as it has some lovely scenery and a simple, easy to follow plot. It's a very cliched story in which a boring man with a boring job suddenly quits his job and, with in two weeks, becomes a self-fulfilled, adventurous, interesting, and totally changed man who women swoon over. His early ridiculous daydreams give way to equally ridiculous actual events, which all happen very suddenly and witb little thought for reason or likelyhood.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty should have been heartwarming whimsical movie that I fell in love with, but instead frustrated me to no end. The biggest problem is that none of the characters act in a way that any relatable human being would, which culminates in a near end twist that really took me out of the movie. The parts that are clever or heartwarming come at the expense of being a paint-by-numbers cliche. The dialogue comes off as very awkward, which is intentional, but not the awkward that lends itself to good writing that someone like Joss Whedon can produce. I am sure that I will appreciate the message and the intent behind it, but I was too frustrated and bored to enjoy watching it.