Director Ron Howard Presents in Eden a Visular Stunning, But Unbalanced Epic About Stranded People Competing With Each Other. Critics Are Divided: Some Actors and Scenes Impress, While the Film is also called Long and Messy.
NRC – 2 Stars
“The ‘Galapagos Affair’ is a fascinating mystery. On March 27, 1934, An Adventuress who Called Herself Baroness Eloise de Wagner-Bosquet Disappeared Without A Trace from the Island of Floreana With Her Lover Robert PHILLIPSON. HER Seconde Boy ‘On Boy’ DOLDIFY ‘On Boy Boy’ On Boy Boy ‘On Boy Boy’ On Boy Boy ‘ Island.
“Director Ron Howard Turns It Into A Top-Heavy, Unbalanced, and, at 130 minutes, Too Long Epic in Eden . It’s not Due to his Beautiful, Ascetic Images, Nor To The Acactors for Sure. They Engage in a Sizzling Duel Misanth Wife, Daniël Bruhl As the Serious Petty Bourgeois Heinz Wittmer, and Sydney Sweeney As His Young, Tough Bride Margret Wittmer, Who Indeed Turns Ana de Armas Steals, A Monstroune
Trouw – 2 Stars
“It sounds exciting: an unsolved mystery that unfolded in the 1930s on floreana, one of the galapagos islands off the coast of ecuador. People with a dream of a beautiful, new world. A utopia that ended in murder and dath. Strauch (Vanessa Kirby) Flee the Economic Crisis and the Advancing Fascism After the First World War.
“The Drama Takes on a Sinister Edge when the eccentric, self-processe baroness eloise (Ana de Armas) also shows up. She is to build an exclusive resort for millionaires on the island. You guessed it: greed, manipulation, and violinesce, and violinence, and and violence, and and violinscecececececececececeence, and and violinscecececececececeence, and and violence, and and violin. Film.
De Volkskrant – 3 Stars
“Eden seeks the (shaky) middle ground between survival thriller and farce. Howard, who peppers his film with (superfluous) shots of the iguanas on the island, shows himself here as a somewhat messy storyteller. But the Galapagos affair, a kind of primal source for programs and series like Expedition Robinson and The White Lotus, remains enjoyable even in feature film form.”
“The director and his co-screenwriter Noah Pink Never Really Choose A Perspective Within The Three Competing Parties, With the Side Effect That All The Main Characters Remain Somewhat Distant. These are not nice people. The thriller’s aspect in Edenn’ttgertieT Kirby, and the Armas in particular: Whoever Goes Under, It Doesn’t Really Matter. “
De Telegraaf – 3.5 Stars
“Director Ron Howard ( Apollo 13 , The Da Vinci Code) Knows How to Mintain the Tension Well. Food Quickly Becomes Scarce, and Wild Animals Certainly Don’t Make It Any Easier. The Armas Holds Her Own, Effortlesly Wrapping the Men Ard Dem men Ard.”
“Eden sometimes seems to lose its way in what it wants to be. A look at the survival instinct of stranded people, a soap opera in paradise, or an entertaining variation on the Robinson story. Not everything works equally well, but this club of quarreling beautiful people is never boring.”