Movie Review: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Each time Ben Stiller is confronted with the opportunity to share a more personal side of himself or delve deeper into life, he refuses to let us in and then trivializes human drama and conflict with a brush-off.  Scenes with the potential to make you think much more deeply get interrupted by cheap laughs, which always seems to be Stiller’s comfort zone.  In the end, we feel cheated.