Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

OneEightNine Media Kon Tiki I love this movie. It is about a Swedish or Finnish or whatever explorer and his team who sails across the ocean on a raft to prove cross-continental colonization of a South American tribe took place in the orient. Funny how some of the best films are based on true stories. Anyway, the film is well acted, well told, well this and well that. Just go and check it out. Totally a ten out of ten kind of deal for sure. There is a reason why they picked this director to direct the latest POTC movie, which wasn't half bad by the way. In fact it was the second best Pirates movie made to date; not sure why the critics trashed it. Seriously, critics are killing Hollywood by calling trash treasure and treasure trash.

Katoo I was intrigued by the story of Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon-Tiki expedition which took place in an era without GPS, mobile phones etc. This is sooo normal for us now, even though I myself have lived 3/4 of my life without this technology as well.I very much liked the look of this movie, almost reminded me of the glorious technicolor movies of the '40s-'50s in which it is actually situated. You can feel the blistering sun out at see and sense the tropical heat in Fatu Hivu, the use of colour and light is outstanding, in the Pacific as well in the scenes shot in Norway. Loved it.I understand Thor Heyerdahl wasn't the most sympathetic bloke around, but even in a movie about him there could have been made more effort in trying to get the audience to understand his motives. We see a brief synopsis of his life in Fatu Hivu, but the movie switches to it straight from his Scandinavian childhood without much explanation. Why did he become a zoologist and geographer in the first place? Unless I missed this, I still don't know why. It kind of got in the way of me understanding his sudden and uncontrollable drive to prove the theory of Tiki.Heyerdahl obviously was a very driven, ambitious and intelligent man, stubborn and a bit of a dictator as well. Very few successful men/explorers would have survived without these characteristics, so that's fine. In the movie, they tried to show another side of him, more vulnerable, privately doubting his decisions, sometimes even being afraid (and he only shows that in private, never to other people). When the movie premiered, actor Pal Hagen was the same age as Hayerdahl when he made the voyage. When you consider this, a young man, only 33, undertaking this epic trip, that must have been a daunting command. Hagen did a great job in portraying Heyerdahl in this stage of his life. I also liked actor Gustaf Skarsgard as Bengt and Tobias Santelman as Knut.There are a lot of scenes leading up to the actual raft trip, and some flash-back scenes as well (with one about Thor and an injured Liv trying to get help by alarming a sailing boat passing Fatu Hivu: what was that for and what did it mean for the movie... I still can't figure it out). The actual trip is more about the first 20 days when they seem to be drifting in the wrong direction; as soon as they catch the right current, next we know they are crashing into Raroia. That's ±75 days gone in a few minutes.There are some other irregularities. The way the Kon-Tiki crew is choosing, for instance. Apart from one childhood friend, and a refrigerator salesman, there is no explanation for any of the other crew members other than that they are Scandinavian and that they have some sort of skill that Thor can use. I read that each of these men were in fact very, very skilled technicians, smart and experienced. In the movie however, they come across as amateurs, a bunch of randomly generated men, not very stress resistant. That clearly was so not the case, I was sorry that the director/producers thought it would be more interesting to create some tension between these men whereas in reality they were a well oiled team, disciplined and focused. I mean, at the end of the movie they show that Herman went to become a UN international representative for Fishing! And in the movie he was just a scared, shiftless refrigerator salesman who doubts Thor all the time and is constantly thinking they will all die at sea.And the parrot/shark killing scene was indeed OTT, as well as the fake beards at the end (that was even ridiculous).I liked the movie, did not love it. But it has made me interested in the figure of Heyerdahl and the many, many expeditions he did after Kon-Tiki. Meanwhile, DNA investigation has proved that Polynesians do descend from South Americans, if in percentage much less than from Asians.An entertaining movie. I can understand its nomination for the Oscars, the look and feel of it are great, but I can equally understand why it didn't win. I'm going to try and find Heyerdahls own documentary, which DID win an Oscar in 1951.I was sorry to not have been able to watch it in Norwegian, which I think would have made the dialogues between the actors more wooden than it now was. For commercial purposes, and English version was made.

chrs-38384 I decided to watch the original Norwegian version of the film with the English subtitles, mostly because I heard the Norwegian version is longer than the English version.This movie does progress rather slowly, particularly once they get their raft into the water. I think that the fridge salesman's (Herman) idea toward the end, about anchoring the raft and waiting until the 13th wave, sort of serves as his redemption (i.e. the crew was doubtful about his usefulness on this trip since he was introduced to them as a fridge salesman, if I'm not mistaken). And, it would have been nice if they added in more to the movie, to show the audience what happens immediately (not the "in the long run, here's what the crew ended up doing") after arriving at their destination, such as: dialogues between Thor and those who laughed at what he proposed in his thesis; how the scientific community reacted after finding out he accomplished his far-fetched goal; did he ever miss Liv?Anyway, I loved the ending for what it did show--the letter Thor reads from Liv upon arriving onto the island is bittersweet. I had to bump up my rating of the movie after that part.Overall, a pretty good movie. 7/10.

The Couchpotatoes Movies based on a true story are always better, well at least most of the time they are. This story is quite incredible. I would never ever even consider to build a balsa raft and then cross the ocean from Peru to Polynesia. It must have taken a lot of courage and determination to begin an expedition like this one, certainly in that time. Now, about the movie itself, it is pleasant to watch, with nice shots even though they are most of the time on the ocean. The story is not boring at all, au contrary I thought it was very entertaining. No complaint about the cast either. All the actors were good and made it a very believable journey across the ocean. Good movie about a story I never heard of. Now I do, and I'm glad I do.