A huge waste of some great resources. It is hard to believe that an experienced screenwriter of some great movies can produce something so bad. The bad direction and script were evident from the outset, along with the lighting and cinematography. It was like the Lifetime Channel had tried to graduate from making love dramas. The lighting screamed amateur and the color switches from fake grainy B&W footage to sepia to various other tones was highly distracting and only served to demean the narrative. It is like the production designer, DP and Director had just graduated from making commercials (or Lifetime movies) I am trying to find a reason - like lack of budget maybe?

Horrible one dimensional garbage. Clive Owen obviously thought this was a Marx Brothers bio-pic and he is Groucho Marx. All characters are made out to be cardboard cut outs except Gellhorn, and that greatly diminishes that character. The title should be Grouch and Gellhorn. What rubbish.

I am disappointed that this film was not better. I wanted to like it so much, as it starred two of my favourite actors, had cameos of many well known performers, and had a great story to tell. Unlike other bio-pics, I was not able to be transported to another time to learn about these people. My attention kept being drawn to the poorly written dialogue and odd directing choices (sepia toned segments were gimmicky and distracting). Both Kidman and Owen were miscast in these roles, but Hollywood always has to have its big names, even if they have to shoe- horn them in, and they got a shitty result. I could see Robin Wiegert or Sarah Paulsen killing in this role, if it was better written.

Given the running time of the film, the narrative can do justice to neither figure, but Gellhorn is especially ill-served. Considering her status as one of the major war correspondents of the twentieth century, her professional life and achievements are largely glossed over in the film, which is unfortunate. Indeed, scenes in which we see her writing are few and far between.Also, the way in which John Dos Passos is treated as some minor literary figure in relation to Hemingway is irksome. Sure, Hemingway saw him as a rival, and may have tried to personally belittle him, but Dos Passos is one of the great modernist writers of the 20th century, and this should have been acknowledged beyond Gellhorn's dismissing narration that after the Spanish Civil War "he turned to the right." Perhaps, but he also wrote the U.S.A. trilogy, which is a truly marvellous and iconic novel.So, while not without merit, this is a very unbalanced and, sadly, flawed film, albeit one that unexpectedly features Lars Ulrich of Metallica!