“Eden” is no paradise.

Ron Howard’s tale about a group of European settlers who attempt to carve out their own slice of heaven on an uninhabited piece of land in the Galápagos Islands rests unsteadily between drama and camp, as the director and cast never seem to be on the same page about what movie they’re making.

Sex, murder, intrigue, desire, Nietzsche, feral hogs and a naked Jude Law, it’s all here. But “Eden’s” pulse never rises, even as it becomes a “Lord of the Flies” riff in the clothes — or lack thereof — of a historical epic.

Jude Law plays Dr. Friedrich Ritter, who flees Germany and comes to the island of Floreana with his wife, Dora Strauch Ritter (Vanessa Kirby), to start fresh and build their own utopia. It’s the early 1930s, society is collapsing, and Friedrich yearns for

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