Creation

Creation is a beautifully shot and well acted film about the later life of Charles Darwin as he struggles to put his theory of evolution down on paper. The film reminded me of Benjamin Button in that it too is a well shot film that ultimately fails because of a very standard and plain storyline that has been done millions of times. I enjoyed the film, but remarkable it certainly wasn't. I'll remember the documentary-style survival-of-the-fittest scenes showing nature's dark side the longest.

A powerful and masterful piece of film-making. The secret is that underneath all the glitz and glamour of period costumes and creationism and natural history and Darwin's book, the movie is really about a loving father who is simply destroyed, torn to pieces by the loss of his favourite daughter. It's in these critical scenes that we really see how human and frail this historical legend could have been. Very moving stuff - Bettany and the film should be Oscar contenders.

Solid acting with mediocre plot. Nothing really special and that's the problem.

There are good performances and fleeting moments of exquisite moviemaking, but the experience as a whole is an evolutionary dead end.

Tracing the origin of The Origin of Species produces the sort of stuffy biopic that once would have starred Paul Muni. Granted, in those days the achievement of Charles Darwin would not have been summed up in such bellicose terms as "You've killed God, sir," and this alone may be sufficiently satisfying for the acolytes of Bill Maher.

Bettany gives it his all but this film is too unremarkable to make any kind of lasting impact. It's not a bad movie, just highly uneven. Watch it for Bettany's commendable performance.

Movie about Darwin? Cool! This movie? Not so much.

The versatile Bettany semi-reprises his role as the Darwin-like ship's doctor in "Master and Commander". While some of the most touching elements (the parallel drawn between Anne and the orangutan, and Darwin leaving the decision to publish up to his wife) are apparent fiction, they are very plausible and consistent. Conceiving his theory through his illness, family tragedies and negative religious reaction is well portrayed. "Creation" is the perfect title despite opinions to the contrary.

Beautiful work about how difficut it is to defy some beliefs and face some of our problems.

Creation is a beautifully shot and well acted film about the later life of Charles Darwin as he struggles to put his theory of evolution down on paper. The film reminded me of Benjamin Button in that it too is a well shot film that ultimately fails because of a very standard and plain storyline that has been done millions of times. I enjoyed the film, but remarkable it certainly wasn't. I'll remember the documentary-style survival-of-the-fittest scenes showing nature's dark side the longest.

i wouldn't say that this is anything particularly special. for being a man who's name is still thrown around over a hundred years later darwin's life in this movie seems more like a soap opera than anything else.

25/9/9 - Well shot and acted, but messy, over-long and with problems of focus.

A piece of really good picture and act. Moving.

Gothic tale with many sides; grief, giult, religion, faith, quackery, medicine, family, work, stress and anxiety. Great performances from all. Some of the hallucination/dream sequences were a little overdone but other than that this was really good.

A criminally monotonal sapfest about one of history's most revolutionary thinkers. It's as though Danielle Steele wrote a screenplay about Darwin, except they didn't even bother to add any sexiness. If you were going to make it housewife melodrama, at least make the characters hot, crank up the chemistry, blow things up & entertain us, damn it. Not this tinkling stock piano & doe-eyed heavy breathing sotto voce natural light, with pale scandalized muttonchops quizzically repeating, "Sacrilege!"

Not recommended. All the movie (except last 8 minute that is about darwins book) is a fiction about darwins hallocinations about his dead douther. دیدنشو توصیه نمیکنم. کل فیلم بجز 8 دقیقه آخر که راجع به نوشتن کتاب داروین هست راجع به توهمات داروین درباره دختر مرده اش هست.

boring and without focus

By all accounts Darwin was a patient, meticulous scientist who quietly refined and developed his theories over many decades. This biopic, however, portrays him as a tortured mentally ill obsessive haunted by visions of his dead child. I guess they had A Beautiful Mind's Oscars in sight when making this, even bringing Connelly onboard. Sadly, despite being beautifully acted and produced, it provides very little insight into the life of the man himself or his work.

"Jon Amiel's portrait of Darwin's efforts to accept and acclimate to a new reality is mucked up by all manner of directorial flim-flam." - Nick Schager

This Charles Darwin biopic is curiously dispassionate, but Creation contains some of director Jon Amiel's best work, and Paul Bettany's performance is not to be missed.