I had tickets for a preview of this at the Vue in Shepherds Bush, which couldn't be handier - no traipsing miles to places like Wimbledon or Kingston or Greenwich, but just a ten minute walk.
My first impressions of the film were that I didn't really like it. The dreamings of Walter Mitty were offputting to say the least, and interfered with the flow of the film. However, things changed as the film went on, and I was soon really enjoying it. There was plenty of action - Walter Mitty's real adventures were much more exciting than all his dreams, and there was never a dull moment as he went from one country to another, and from one hair-raising adventure to the next.
The end was quite a surprise Set in a magazine that the new owners had decided was to go solely online after the next issue, with the consequent disappearance of most people's jobs, his adventures were all part of his quest to find the photographer who had taken the picture that was to go on the front cover of the final issue, and which he assumed he had lost - picture No. 25, which the photographer had said encapsulated life and all its meaning. When the final issue came out, there was Walter Mitty himself on the front cover.
Intertwined with this was his search for a girlfriend. Having joined Harmony, a dating agency, he was having problems because there was absolutely nothing in his life that was interesting - he hadn't been anywhere or done anything interesting, never mind exciting. Everyone ignored him. However, as he posted all his adventures online, his profile changed - and in the end he gets to go out with the girl he wanted, whom he had first noticed in the office, but wanted to date via Harmony.
Altogether, a "feel good" film - exciting, all ends happily, and boy gets the girl he wanted.
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