Bad Boy Hunting

Rating: 3/10 (27 August 2017)

Drama about an MIT janitor (Matt Damon) who turns out to be a math genius but needs the help of a psychiatrist (Robin Williams) to find the right direction.
Winner of 2 Oscars: Best Supporting Actor for Robin Williams and Best Screenplay for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who together wrote (clearly when they were teenagers) an impossible story filled with 'holes' beginning at first by the fact that a mathematical genius of 20 years has gone unnoticed throughout his schooling without any teacher having noticed and taken some action, because there are many schools dedicated to this type of people, mainly in the US. Impossible also that he had read so many books and acquired so much knowledge and in addition still have understood and memorized everything with only 20 years. And no one in his right mind, with such a gift, would prefer to lay bricks for the rest of his life and be a criminal with an enviable record at the age of 20 - as Will Hunting himself says in the film, putting down bricks is also a very dignified and noble profession, but the entire plot of the film becomes unrealistic with his insistence on living in rejection of his potential.
The direction of Gus Van Sant is insipid and does not help to improve the movie. The acting could be better but with such an argument and dialogues it was not at all possible (the scene in the bar comes to mind - but what the hell was that?). Will Hunting is a disrespectful and arrogant punk douchbag and at the end of the film when he left to go after the girl I was, like the character of Ben Affleck but for the opposite reason, glad to not have to see him again.