"Ron Howard's reputation as a Hollywood stalwart who crafted classy hits and middlebrow prestige pictures always masked where his true skills lay - in his ability to take larger-than-life characters and bounce them off one another. It's why some of his films ( The Missing, The Dilemma, Frost/Nixon, Night Shift, even those silly Dan Brown adaptations) are effectively buddy movies, sometimes secretly so."
"Reality, or at least the semblance of reality, provided cover for his attraction to extreme personalities. As did his solid, glossy approach to craft: He built compelling, well-proportioned narratives around people who threatened to send the stories spinning in all sorts of nutty directions. He's done the same with his new film, Eden, too. But this time, Howard - to his eternal credit - lets the craziness take over."
Ron Howard built a reputation for classy hits and middlebrow prestige pictures while actually excelling at matching larger-than-life characters against one another. Many of his films operate as buddy movies, often adapting true-life stories that provide cover for extreme personalities. His glossy craft produced well-proportioned narratives around people prone to chaotic behavior. In Eden Howard fully embraces the chaos by placing five eccentric men and women on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana. The film dramatizes the 1929 arrival of Dr. Friedrich Ritter and Dore Strauch, who sought a radical philosophy and personal healing amid political and financial turmoil.
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