Hollywood Cheese

Rating: Null/10 (27 January 2002)

The actors are good, but if this film did not pretend to be a true story, it would be completely ridiculous. Think about it, if there was no John Nash in real life for them to borrow 1% of their story from, and the filmmakers went in to pitch this story: We take a hot actor, pretend he's a Goodwill Hunting-like genius, pretend he's not bi-sexual, illustrate his "beautiful mind" by dumbing down the field of theoretical mathmatics to a bar-room level, then give him a disease of the week, steal the "these people aren't real" plot twist from "Sixth Sense," allow him to conquer the disease of the week through "love," "humility" and "a lifetime of teaching the young who idolize him," along with the superhuman support of his wife (whose character is ENTIRELY unmotivated. WHY does she stay with him? She is a total MYSTERY...) and in the end, give him a huge award because he has finally stopped demanding to be considered "important." Who the heck would watch that? The film departs so much from the real life story of this guy that what remains is only pointless nonsense about How to Beat Schizophrenia Without Really Trying. It should actually be titled "Jennifer Connoly Is Beautiful" and let it go at that.