Interesting perspective on a genius' life

Rating: 7/10 (13 February 2019)

For starters it should be said that the movie is by far much more about Hawking's personal life than about his academic career and contribution. However, one will get some minor insights in what he was doing (I'm not an expert myself, you might judge differently in case you are).
In my perspective the movie shows in a vivid manner how ALS affected Hawking's life and makes one think about how such dramatic disease would affect everyone's life. This also made me think about how much more difficult it must have been for Hawking to write books in comparison to a healthy person (the actual act of writing). So I really liked the movie for making me think about those kind of things.
In my opinion, the actors did quite a good job, especially Redmayne managed to play Hawking convincingly and also to convey Hawking's feelings in a probable manner
My major point of critique is that the movie is quite slow and during some scenes my attention slipped away as the movie was a bit boring to me at times.