Kon-Tiki (2012)

Rating: 75%
The last time I was at my friend Blane's house he wanted to show me this movie but we didn't have the time because it was the end of the day. So let me borrow his copy, and here's how it turned out for Kon-Tiki

Plot: Thor Heyerdahl is a experimental ethnographer and adventurer, who spent ten years in Polynesia with his wife learning about the Polynesians and how they settled there from South America. He tries to publish his theory that they did in fact come from there, but no magazine believes that it's true. So he builds a wooden raft and sails with five other men attempting to said it from South America to Polynesia in 100 days.

All in all, this is a pretty good movie. The story by itself is interesting and they delivered what Thor's goal in the film very well. It's also a very well created movie in how it was bringing us back to the time period with the gadgets or tools that they were using at the time like the kind of radio they had or even what a harpoon mostly looked like back in the day. The acting was also good, and while not every character on the raft was fully developed, they were still enjoyable and you are left hoping none of them died or anything like that. On top of that, I noticed that the visual effects were surprisingly good. Sometimes I could notice whether something was CGI or not, but even when it's noticeable, it was still visually impressive whether it was the whales, sharks or just looking at the ocean, they did a great job pulling it off. I only have two big problems with the movie. One is that while Thor himself was okay, he did seem somewhat one noted when it came to his faith that what they were going to do was going to work. I guess that's not entirely a problem in some respects, but it was kind of noticeable as the film progressed. But even bigger then that is just how the story was told by the book. It had a lot of familiar beats and it wasn't really all that hard to identify most of them. But similar to Saving Mr. Banks albeit not quite as affective, it wasn't necessarily so predictable that it completely ruined the film altogether. It did a couple of things differently, the times that it was being suspenseful, it worked, and the story itself helped keep it interesting for when you find out whether or not they made it.

And that's my review for Kon-Tiki. You may have a problem with it for how it is predictable, but it still holds up with an interesting story, a nice cast, very good visual effects and great detail on the time period that is all around a nice film to watch.