Disappointing remake

Rating: 3/10 (3 February 2015)

This is pretty much a remake of the 1993 biopic on Stephen Hawking ("Eine kurze Geschichte der Zeit")...well, no surprise there, since it's an autobiographical work. However, the 2014 movie stops at pretty much the same point as the 1993 film does. The 20 years in the interim aren't included at all with the exception of two sentences on screen after the film ends.
What disappointed me most was that the works of Stephen Hawking are not touched on in any way except that words "Time", "Hawking Radiation", and "Black Hole" are mentioned. But that's pretty much it. No context - nothing.
This could have been a movie to inspire people to go into science or achieve great things. But the movie sadly boils down to "Sick guy who is famous for unexplained reasons has troubles in his relationship". That isn't even good enough for TV.
3 stars because the actors (especially Felicity Jones) did their job adequately well.