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‘Eden’ Review: Ron Howard’s Historical ‘Thriller’ Strands Us on an Island With Characters Who Grow More Dislikable by the Minute
Jude Law and Ana de Armas lead a crew of showboating misanthropes you just want to get away from.
Ron Howard has always taken pride in being an eclectic filmmaker — in the last 40 years, he has made movies about mermaids, cocoons, auto factories, astronauts, firefighters, newspapers, beautiful minds, cave rescuers, the Grinch, the Da Vinci Code, the Beatles, and Pavarotti. Jude Law, who I just saw give what may be the best performance of his career as an FBI agent in “The Order,” here descends into hambone Teutonic surliness as Friedrich Ritter, a German physician who has turned his back on society to go to the isolated green island of Floreana, in the southern part of Ecuador’s Galápagós Archipelago. De Armas plays her with a smile of ripe amorality and an accent that makes her sound like Madeline Kahn in “Young Frankenstein.” She acts like she’s in a ’30s drawing-room comedy, which is rather absurd, but for a while you feel the movie come alive when she’s onscreen.
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