Great portray of Hawking by Eddie Redmayne, but very slow paced story line

Rating: 6/10 (13 December 2014)

The story of glorious life of Stephen Hawking with shining performance of Eddie Redmayene. He showed a smooth and believable portray of Hawking, from a Cambridge PHD student nerd, all the way to a world authority in Cosmology, at the same time, a usual man dealing with disability and family issues. His constant smiles and sense of humor showed the intelligence beyond that, seeing not only the complicated physics and mathematics, but also analyzing and predicting the elements in the life. The beautiful scene when Hawking first sees Jonathan, a very good looking and healthy young man, in his house, invited by his wife, innocently teaching music to his kid, he easily analyzed the math and predicted the future. His theory was proved by the scene he saw through an airplane window, years later.
The movie; however, has a very slow pace and in many occasions, traps into repetition.
I agree with Redmayne nomination for Golden Globe, but I doubt he beats Micheal Keaton as Birdman, if both go to Oscars. Felicity Jones was good, but not a first-class act, knowing that these days, a good performance is a rarity anyway.