The Theory of Everything

The Theory of Everything, 2014. Young Stephen Hawking marries with a life expectancy of two years.

Directed by James Marsh. Written by Anthony McCarten, based on a book by Jane Hawking. Starring Eddie Redmayne, & Felicity Jones, with Maxine Peake, & Charlie Cox.

Concept: C
Story: C
Characters: B
Dialog: B
Pacing: B
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: A
Acting: A
Music: C
Enjoyment: It's basically a soap opera, which just incidentally happens to feature a famous physicist. He could have any sort of academic job, and it wouldn't change the story. Which is for the best. Movies about Scientists Doing Science never work. Instead the focus is on well-proven and popular movie tropes of the Romance & Adversity variety. There isn't anything here that I don't feel like I've seen before, but they execute those pieces expertly, and do a good job putting them together into strong movie. B

GPA: 2.9/4