Movies I Like | Kon -Tiki

This is one beautiful movie which I watched recently; borrowed from the public library. This movie is based on the Kon-Tiki expedition which was undertaken by Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947. It was a 100-day expedition to trace the course taken by South Americans to reach Polynesia. This was a new theory proposed by Thor and he understood the journey to prove the same. Prior to this expedition the prevalent belief was that Polynesia was populated by people from Asia.

This movie was made in 2012 and based upon a best-selling book on the expedition written by Thor. There was a documentary made on the journey which became an Oscar winner.

The movie is a well dramatized version which captures nicely the highs and lows of the journey and emotions of the men who shared that rickety raft for 100 days. The movie speaks enormously of the self-belief, conviction and confidence of Thor Heyerdahl. the movie provides an insight into the small roles played by each member of the crew in making the expedition a success.

The film is well made but I suppose to get a better feel of such a journey reading the book makes more sense. It's difficult for a 120-minute feature film to capture a 100-day journey across the Pacific in a wooden raft in all it's complexity, toughness and endurance. Still the feature film is a great attempt and is an experience good to have.

The movie was nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

My Rating would be 3.5 out of 5.