Review of Kon-Tiki (2012) by Joel A — 10 Apr 2013

The film falls far below my expectation, which consists of many years imagining about every single page of the book (written by Thor Heyerdahl himself) that I read since childhood. Despite a strong beginning, the film is really mute and lack of any excitement due to a disoriented storyline - what is the real driving force of the plot? The desire to prove himself, to surpass all difficulties of Thor? The complexed interaction and inner struggle of the Kon-Tiki team in such claustrophobic and dead-or-alive condition of the raft? The joy of discovering the immerse beauty of nature, of ocean? How can the spectators realize and feel such plot when even the director and the writer themselves couldn't apparently make it clear? Quite a disappointment for an Oscar-nominated film, especially when I have been waiting for so long the day when my favourite book of childhood is brought to the big screen.