There are movies I can be objective about. I can look at and make reference to it's strengths and flaws and weight them up to give them a considered and thought out rating.

This is not one of them.

Some movies are just more than the sum of their parts and you can't really explain why you like them to the people who don't. You agree with their criticisms but what you like overrides them.

There is something about The Secret Life of Walter Mitty that really does speak to me. Maybe I am just a yearner, wishing I could live the life I believe I deserve for myself while truly being too afraid to make any efforts to achieve it.

And maybe knowing that fact and still not making the most of it makes it even more pathetic or at the very least painful.

Life is scary. Risks and change are ample dissuaders. So maybe being able to sit down and enjoy a film where that fear is removed by the power of the plot gives me so vicarious joy.

Maybe that's why I sit listening to the (excellent) score and daydream like Walter thinking about what I could do if I could just get past my self doubt (and a slight dose of ADHD) and make the most of it.

Anyway. You didn't come here for a therapy session, you came here for a film review.

For me, the Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a five star movie, it won't be for others. But I will say if you want an easy watch with some interesting and fun direction from Ben Stiller and a killer soundtrack, then this might be for you.