Hawking Deserves Better

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2014)

Disappointing, by-the-book biopic of Stephen Hawking, who certainly deserves better! I was really struck at how this is more like a lazy Lifetime movie than a film about one of the greatest minds in the history of our species.
The acting is fine. The film score is good. The cinematography is all over the map, switching from one color scheme to the next throughout, as if the cinematographer just couldn't decide what to go with.
But, there is little science mentioned or discussed, and when it is, it is done as unimaginatively as possible. Biopics often run the risk of just hitting the same biography notes time after time. And, that's what happens here. I just saw "The Imitation Game," and that is infinitely better!
Hopefully, someone who has a better handle for filmmaking will give Hawking the movie he deserves one day. This isn't it.
****** (6 Out of 10 Stars)