over rated

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2003)

How did this boring movie ever win an Oscar for best picture? It should have been 4 hours long. The version released to theaters feels like half the story has been chopped out. I found neither Nash nor his wife interesting, the math and numbers angle was dull, and the schizophrenic plot felt unresolved And how Connelly won best supporting actress is beyond me. She adds nothing to the picture beyond a devoted wifely duty role that any of a hundred actresses could have fleshed out the same way. Where one should be moved, one is attempted to laugh, and Crowe just seems miscast. I thought this was one of the Academy awards biggest mistakes, next to voting Lawrence of Arabia and the even more over rated The Greatest Show on Earth best pictures. If you want to see Opie direct a much better flick, check out Apollo 13. This one will just put you to sleep. The only decent characters are the ones Nash imagines in his intense paranoia. The real life characters are pale and non descript beside them.