Release Date:
12/21/2001
Genius makes breakthrough. Genius goes schizo. Genius redeems himself. A Beautiful Mind proves that Ron Howard challenges himself and the audience about as much as the first two questions on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Howard is so white bread, he makes Ed Begley, Jr. look like Dolemite. Do we need to go on?
Not only does A Beautiful Mind tread no new ground, it cant even manage to be interesting. Set in the world of mathematics, the audience isnt aware of the importance of anything that happens unless the characters say, Hey, isnt that a major mathematical breakthrough youve got there? Why, yes it is. (and, yes, most of the dialogue is this bad). Not to mention the fact that for all his twitches and quirks, there is no John Nash character. Were never told who he is, why he is, or why we should give a shit about him. Crowe slumps around looking like Sam Raimi without a hint of an actual human being underneath all the ticks. Its so shallow and shameless, you expect Crowe and Howard to come on during the ending credits and actually fellate an Oscar statue.
One last thingwe dont want to see him typecast, but Russell Crowe is the first real tough guy Hollywood has produced since Steve McQueen. Do we want to see him as a sniveling nerd who cant please Jennifer Connolly in bed? No! Leave that to the Geoffrey Rushes. Russell, please unleash hell again soon.
Not only does A Beautiful Mind tread no new ground, it cant even manage to be interesting. Set in the world of mathematics, the audience isnt aware of the importance of anything that happens unless the characters say, Hey, isnt that a major mathematical breakthrough youve got there? Why, yes it is. (and, yes, most of the dialogue is this bad). Not to mention the fact that for all his twitches and quirks, there is no John Nash character. Were never told who he is, why he is, or why we should give a shit about him. Crowe slumps around looking like Sam Raimi without a hint of an actual human being underneath all the ticks. Its so shallow and shameless, you expect Crowe and Howard to come on during the ending credits and actually fellate an Oscar statue.
One last thingwe dont want to see him typecast, but Russell Crowe is the first real tough guy Hollywood has produced since Steve McQueen. Do we want to see him as a sniveling nerd who cant please Jennifer Connolly in bed? No! Leave that to the Geoffrey Rushes. Russell, please unleash hell again soon.