A better version of "A Beautiful Mind"

Rating: 7/10 (23 January 2020)

The focus is more Hawking the person, than Hawking the genious, and giving the complexity of his work, I think that was a smart choice. And it's not completely forgotten. They "dumb down" the science and try to include it enough to show how smart this guy is, but not to go over the head of the "not that smart".
A violent score almost force emotion on us. And it kind of works. The movie had me "almost crying" every 20 minutes or so. A little "too Disney" at moments, but typical of Hollywood bios. This time, it was effective with me. The acting from Redmayne (Hawking) and Jones (Jane Hawking) were awesome, helped by a bunch of moments to show off (some subtle, some melodramatic).
In the end, cliched, with too much melodrama but all well done, the smart decision of not go too much into the absurdly complicated science, good acting and a coherent story of "overcoming the adversities".
PD: The use of God and Hawking's perspective about it through the film, I think is particularly smart (even I don't like how present God is in the story about a scientist) and I gave an extra point for it.