It has beautiful cinematography, a star performance that is shocking in its authenticity, a careful eye for nuance and detail and an irresistible blend of action and romance that should spell automatic success.

Swank's moving performance, the period dressing and beautiful planes all appeal, but dramatically it doesn't really soar.

Hilary Swank is forced to deliver dialogue that sounds as if it was written in Chinese and then translated into English by a computer.

Earhart, a rebellious obsessive with an active distaste for societal convention, ends up feeling flat in practice.