Should have played up the drama more

Rating: 2/10 (1 September 2019)

First off, Stephen and Jane are both acted excellently. Stephen Hawking himself put it best when he said at times he felt like he was watching himself, and Jane perfectly portrays the difficult of raising a family with such a disabled husband.
However, this movie sticks too strictly to the facts, which makes this movie feel more like a written biography rather than a big budget drama. This could be forgiven if it also showed all of Stephen's highlights, but it significantly downplays his achievements by failing to convince the audience that his ideas were truly revolutionary. Understandably, the film only touches on the actual subjects that he studied, but it also fails to convey how controversial and award worthy his discoveries were. The result is a low-drama Hollywood drama that underplays the most important parts of the biography.