Overrated by plenty

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2001)

It took beautiful patience to sit through "A Beautiful Mind." I can't knock Russell Crowe's acting but if the flick had been cut by 30 minutes and sped up by 2 hours, it would have been perfect. How? I would have seen the 20 trailers, 'THE END' would have popped up, the candy was gone and that would have been it. I've seen SLOW MOVING pix but this baby takes the cake. Every word mumbled by Crowe as Nash was an effort. Every facial shot showed more agony than the poor suckers who paid for tickets. I liked the espionage factor but then if I went into details about it,I'd ruin everything for those lucky enough not to have seen it. Yeah, yeah, yeah...I know that all the egghead critics will rave about this magnificent film but Scarlett, I don't give a damn. It was a little better than average and I stand pat.