The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty Is Massively Underrated

Critics hated the Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

It has an abysmal 52% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and reviewers said that it “fails to back up its grand designs with enough substance to anchor the spectacle.”

I disagree vehemently.

I read a bunch of critic reviews and I’m baffled at some of the things they wrote.

Peter Bradshaw at the Guardian said: “In striving so earnestly for a redemptive and genuinely heroic happy ending, Stiller’s movie jettisons the original’s lightness.”

See this confuses me.

Is Walter Mitty a hollow film with no substance? Or is it so heavy that “lightness” can’t be found?

Here’s a review that made me mad.

“Our identification gives way to envy, and [Mitty] is another one of those enchanted people the rest of us can only dream of becoming.”

A.O. Scott at the New York Times wrote that.