Realism and fantasy blended with snappy dialogue

Rating: Null/10 (23 November 1998)

GWH stands out as soon as the actors breathe their first lines of dialogue, Matt Damon's character has been given some of the sparkiest lines in recent memory. Overall the language used is in keeping with the location and the setting in both the upper (Harvard) and lower (South Boston) parts of the city.
I am really amazed about the number of complaints about the use of colourful language, this sort of dialogue is necessary to portray Will and friends realistically, to leave it out would be like taking the soldiers out of Saving Private Ryan or the food out of Babette's Feast.
Let's not be too hard on the writers for using a well used plot line, in the end everything is derivative and the story does offer an excellent portrayal of the way success is measured, the loneliness experienced by the intellectually gifted and how knowledge does not necessarily guarantee wisdom.