Set in the few years prior to the first 1859 publication of the Origin of Species, Creation, directed by Jon Amiel, is
flat psychological drama happening in the head of the young Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany, Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code).
As Variety wrote, «The plot could have been played as a
flat - out broad comedy or an anxiety - inducing
psychological drama, and there are times when it feels like helmer Michael Showalter is striving for a mash - up of both.