Contrived and unrealistic

Rating: 3/10 (11 July 2004)

*POSSIBLE EARLY FILM SPOILERS*
After watching this movie, I plan to file suit against Damon & Affleck to get my two hours back.
The characters are thoroughly unrealistic; never in my life have I met anyone who was anything like these people. Damon is thoroughly unconvincing as either a genius or a blue-collar working stiff, and certainly not as a combination of the two. Affleck is completely script dependent yet again, portraying one of his weakest characters yet. And Williams is at his worst.
Please, Robin, stick to comedy and playing psychopaths, that's what you're good at. Not "serious" drama.
But the sad thing? It's pretty obvious that neither Damon or Affleck took much college-level math. That first problem Will Hunting solves in the hallway can be done with just graph theory, combinatorics, and a little linear algebra. The first problem was trivial; anyone with some discrete math background should be able to solve it. Please, aspiring screenwriters, don't underestimate your audience. You never know who might be watching.