Was expecting much more

Rating: 5/10 (27 February 2015)

I'm a huge fan of Stephen Hawking's work, so my expectations were very high for this movie. Specially because Stephen was thrilled about it, and he made it very clear on the social networks. But i was highly disappointed. Eddie Redmaine is absolutely flawless, he really deserved that Oscar, so was Felicity Jones. I rated it with a five only for them and the soundtrack (i love The Cinematic Orchestra, which Arrival of the Birds and Transformation was PERFECT for that final scene that brought lots of tears to my eyes)...but that's about it.
The movie focuses way too much on the romantic life of Hawking, his wife, his children (who suddenly disappear when it's convenient). I wanted to see more of Hawking's academic life, how his brilliance was acknowledge (you get only two fast paced scenes on this). I wanted to see how his theories changed the way we view ourselves, the universe, and our place in the universe. I wanted to see how he contributed so much to science in general and cosmology. Of course i wasn't expecting a documentary or i would see one, but i was expecting a film about Hawking and not about how ELA destroys a person's ability to move and to be 100% dependent on others. I definitely wasn't expecting to see a movie developing at the speed of light, where you can't really measure his brilliance (i mean, that shot of Hawking's on a cover of a magazine to give us a glimpse of how famous he was becoming is atrocious). If you don't know a thing about Hawking, you definitely won't learn anything with this movie, unless you are very, very, VERY curious and start your research (he deserves it). I hope, at least, that the movie will spark your curiosity for one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th and 21st centuries.