Great Flick

Rating: 10/10 (11 December 1999)

In a year of the ultimate high budget film, Titanic, Good Will Hunting was at the very least a breath of fresh air. With it's budget a miniscule fraction of the Oscar winning best picture, Gus Van Sant and the writers, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, produced a picture with much more substance and emotion than any other movie that year. Critics have questioned the reality of this film. Is it so hard to believe that there is a kid genius from the slums of South Boston? As far as I'm concerned, the critics must be appalled at the idea that someone without a Harvard education could be so successful and so intelligent. Get over this fact, and get over this part of the movie. In all likelihood, the fact that he is a genius isn't the most important element in the film.
This film is about one's life education and about one's growth as a person. As it turned out, this film was extremely entertaining, especially with the thick Boston accents, which in my opinion, only made the movie all the more believable.