A Beautiful Mind is a powerful work of cinema and is Ron Howard's most mature film to date.

Rating: 9/10 (8 April 2010)

Ron Howard is a descent director. He made film that are good and made films that aren't good. But if there's one film that Ron Howard did managed to make which was close to perfection that would be A Beautiful Mind.
A Beautiful Mind is the story of the life of the famous mathematician named John Nash (played by Academy-Award winner Russell Crowe) as the movie starts off with him as an undergraduate at Princeton University. Nash is a very awkward person and seems to have some "issues," but he is a natural born genius. He meets a peculiar fellow named Charles Herman (played by Paul Bettany) who happens to be his roommate and the two get along quite well. He meets other colleagues like Martin Hansen (played by Josh Lucas), Sol (played by Adam Goldberg), Ainsley (played by Jason Gray-Stanford) and Bender (played by Anthony Rapp) who will help Nash later in his life.
Time goes on and Nash gets hired by a man named William Parcher (played by Ed Harris) who hires Nash for a secret military operation that involves Russian attacking the US with nuclear bombs. Nash also meets the lovely Alicia Larde (played by Jennifer Connelly) while teaching a class at MIT in which both of them have some sort of liking between the two of them.
The movie goes on as Nash battles between keeping his love interest, his job, and his sanity.
A Beautiful Mind is a fascinating work of cinema. What I adore about this movie is the acting. Russell Crowe is phenomenal in this movie and basically stoled the show. He turned from strong, warlike gladiator to odd mentally, challenged mathematician and still turned out to be great! The screenplay and the dialogue are exceptionally well. How the plot gradually unfolds is baffling and the dialogue is very realistic and not exaggerated. Overall, this film is great; however, there are some tiny problems that I have with it but it's still great. It's great because it shows the tribulations of mental illness and how it can affect the people around you. It shows that love is more than meets the eye. It shows that caring for someone doesn't mean giving up on them because they have an incurable problem.
Ron Howard has presented us with a movie that is both entertaining and emotionally stratifying that it is worth your time to see this near-perfected work of art. A Beautiful Mind; it's beautiful for a reason.