Surprisingly Enjoyable

Rating: 7/10 (18 January 2015)

A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) and his wife (Felicity Jones).
Upon the first glance, you might think this would be a terrible film. A love story between an incapacitated scientist and his wife? Sounds boring, or at the very least overly sentimental. But it ends up being neither.
Redmayne sells the film. As of now (January 2015) he won the Golden Globe and has been nominated for an Oscar. He ought to win it. Hawking himself has said that Redmayne had an uncanny impersonation going on, and he is right. Whether or not this story is strictly true does not matter... this is the sort of performance that makes a film worth watching.