Perhaps the most overrated big Hollywood movie ever

Rating: 1/10 (28 January 2007)

First of all, let me say that the featured comment on this movie cracks me up. "A movie with a difference - It's realistic"? Ha. This movie is hardly realistic. It totally misrepresents the nature of Nash's delusions, and it criminally oversimplifies how game theory works. For example, schizophrenics never experience visual hallucinations, only auditory hallucinations, and Nash's delusions were hardly as quasi-patriotic and noble as the movie made them seem.
This is your typical Hollywood movie, but perhaps because the eponymous mind was so brilliant, the movie has intellectual delusions of grandeur. Sure, the tolerably good plot makes it watchable, but this movie continually irritated me all the way through, primarily because it maintained a constant ponderous gravitas in an apparent attempt to suggest that there is some profound meaning deeper than the movie's plot. And that meaning just isn't there. The movie's huge mathematical, psychiatric, and biographical distortions were also frustrating. Competent acting and production are this movie's only redeeming qualities; the script is heavy, condescending, pretentious, and shallow. An awful, pretentious movie with no depth.