Good, by nothing special

Rating: Null/10 (29 March 2002)

This movie is competently done, for sure, but it really lacks that special "oomph" that tells a truly great movie. I cannot see why so many Oscars were wasted on it... on the other hand, Americans seem to like this kind of melodramatic movies...
The portayal of the schizophrenia is good, but IF you hadn't know about the illness beforehand, it is kind of given away by the ludicrous plot that Nash invents for himself to star in (it is well-known that the German nuclear bomb programme never got anywhere, and that Russians never infiltrated nuclear devices on US soil).
The real shine is in the acting of John Nash, very believable.

And the part about his early years at Princeton are quite interesting.

All over, a 7 out of 10, maximum.
And why did they gloss over the fact that Nash did some interesting work between his spells of illness in the 1960s, that he actually divorced Alicia, and that he had a child by another woman before her? At least the divorce could have added some tension to the movie...