frankly a disappointment.

Rating: Null/10 (10 January 2002)

Mathematics are rarely the subject of a movie,so I was impatient to see this one.The fabulous cast and credits promised great things. As soon we're told about the topic of the movie (the whole creation can be put in an equation) ,we eagerly wait for what's following.And there's the rub: religious speculations -Admittedly,people like me who do not know the Torah certainly cannot understand all the subtleties of the script-abound and drown the maths out.
And however the mathematical topic was enthralling .The Fibonacci series was a great idea,because we find it in the nature.And pi is really an universal number,since it appears in the bell curve formula ,queen of the probability.Outside beautiful shots,it left the spectator unsatisfied.It leads to nowhere.The ending is merely a repetition of what we learned at the beginning.The thriller side is botched.The black and white cinematography ,granular and dirty ,recalls that of David Lynch's "Eraserhead",an indie too at the time.The brain does too.
The mathematical movie remains to be done.