Over-rated hype

Rating: 1/10 (26 February 2002)

Unfortunately, Russell Crowe likely will win as Oscar for this one. Sad, because Tom Wilkinson deserves it for "In the Bedroom." Actually, Crowe shouldn't have even been nominated. Anthony LaPaglia was so much better in "Lantana," a film that was completely ignored.
If not for Jennifer Connelly's performance, "A Beautiful Mind" would have made my worst films of the year list. She was the best and only thing about this film. The other characters, especially Nash, as played by Crowe, were thoroughly uninteresting. I couldn't care less whether he was delusional or not - he was a boring person. I don't believe a film needs to have sympathetic or likable characters to be good. But there was no one - other that Connelly's character - I cared about. And *****SPOILER ALERT*****
is there anyone in the audience who did not see that pen scene coming a mile away?
This was truly one of the most disappointing films of 2001. How it got so many Oscar nods is beyond me.