In Amelia, a Hollywood biopic about the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, it's not just the aircraft that are made of wood. This is a stilted, studio-bound film that fails to achieve lift-off in spite of its subject matter. As Amelia Earhart, the two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank is forced to deliver dialogue that sounds as if it was written in Chinese and then translated into English by a computer: "I'd rather face a watery grave than go on living as a fraud."
The script is credited to Ron Bass (Rain Man) and Anna Hamilton Phelan (Gorillas in the Mist), but they've plumped for pure hack work here.
PG, 111 mins