Excellent but underrated film

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Apart from a rosy opening, a truly wretched film, depicting Darwin as delusional and constantly hallucinating, everything as dark, twisted, conflicting and psychologically disturbed, more like a horror film. It was too dark to watch to the end and I went and looked up his bio to see if the film was true to life: it seems it isn't, apart from his stomach upsets: the black wretched delusional conflict that runs throughout the film reflects more a product of an ill film production than the reality. Look forward to a different film that I'll enjoy watching and go away feeling some benefit from. Obviously some like the film, but if you want something either true to life or balanced or uplifting, give this a skip and watch something else. d

The is no grand point to this Anglophile psychodrama, just a supposed glimpse into the private world of a man nearly annihilated by the theory he developed. Unresolved guilt divides him from the comforts of faith, friends, and family until a cathartic quack treatment allows him to grieve the loss of innocence personified in his daughter, and restores his libido.Bettany's previous role as Dr. Stephen Maturin so resembles Darwin that this seems almost a sequel, though of a completely different genre. Connelly as his effectively estranged wife adds a voyeuristic piquancy to an otherwise ironically "supporting" role.

It's funny, I just realized there aren't too many films about evolution. There are thousands of films about war, thousands about crime, and zillions about love. You'd think the most fundamental question of human existence, "how the heck did we get here?", would be addressed more often."Creation" is presented as a biopic about Charles Darwin, but its real strength is the way it opens the debate of evolution vs. creationism, seeing how the debate still hasn't been settled in the 150 years since Darwin published "Origin of Species".The film's interesting approach is that it doesn't slam you over the head with propaganda, though it is definitely pro-evolution. For the most part it presents the basics, it presents what Darwin believed, it presents the opposing sentiment, and it leaves it up to us to continue debating with our friends & enemies.I believe it steers a safe enough course that creationists can enjoy it for its story, the same way believers in evolution and even atheists can watch "The Ten Commandments" and not be offended by its underlying fundamentalism (unless they're seriously constipated). "Creation" is a family-friendly film containing an interesting story, romance, drama and some good values regardless of your views on the almighty or lack thereof.There are some staggering points made in the movie, such as Darwin talking about how, in nature, millions of lives are lost for every 1 that thrives. He punctuates the thought by saying "Don't you find that a bit wasteful?"I give the filmmakers bonus points for tackling this subject which, as I said up top, isn't often tackled. I do want to take this opportunity to remind you that the ultimate, greatest film about evolution is, and always shall be, "2001: A Space Odyssey". That's a film that presents compelling arguments for all viewpoints, and it does it without stepping on anyone's toes. If you enjoy "Creation", you should immediately follow it with "2001". Then watch your head asplode.

It could have been so easy for the makers of Creation to say, let's make a movie that focuses on the writing of Darwin's Origin of Species, with all the controversy and the turmoil that accompanied it. Ironically, In choosing not to make this the focus of the movie, Creation ends up being a surprisingly competent biography for a movie that is not even two hours. What the movie does best is to single out a chapter in the Darwin tale, and get intimate with it. Creation is largely about Darwin's inability to write, or do much else, because the memories of his dead first born daughter, are haunting him, as he is under the impression that his lovely wife Emma holds him responsible for her death. Paul Bettany has always been an actor with potential. He hit thew ball out of the park, opposite Russell Crowe in MAster and Commander, but since then he hasn't gotten any useful roles. With Creation, he brings Darwin the role to life vividly. You can see it in his eyes, and read it in his body language, Bettany puts his heart and soul into the movie. Opposite him, Jennifer Connoly, while she doesn't get much screen time, also brings her best game to the screen.Creation is the way I like my biographies to be. It doesn't preach, or tell lies, or attempt to be anything bigger than it should be. It focuses on the people, which is the most important thing, and in the end the film works nicely.