Winner of 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is an expertly crafted biopic based on the life of schizophrenic mathematician John Nash & covers his struggle with his condition. Although the artistic license taken here makes it far more cinematic than required, the film nonetheless succeeds as a touching, entertaining & satisfying experience.

Based on the novel of the same name, the story of A Beautiful Mind begins in 1947 when the young John Nash arrives at Princeton University. Eccentric but brilliant, Nash graduates with flying colours, is hired by MIT but begins exhibiting troubling symptoms of a mental illness which in the long run affects not only his personal & professional life but also those around him.

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I find the concept of expectations and whether or not they are met to be fascinating, especially in regards to film criticism. Last night I finally saw the 2002 Best Picture winner A Beautiful Mind for the first time, a mere 12 years after its release, and without a doubt it is a very good film, one that was elevated to that level through pretty great performances throughout but especially from the two leads. Russell Crowe is John Forbes Nash Jr. and Jennifer Connelly is Alicia, a student in his class that stuns Nash not just with her beauty but also the bold move she makes to solve a noise/temperature problem on his first day as her teacher. I truly…

A Beautiful Mind won the Best Picture Academy Award back in 2002, and although an engrossing and well made biopic, it robbed The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring of a well deserved Oscar. Russell Crowe's performance as mathematician John Nash is another of those incredible transformations from the Wellington born actor, who could well have bagged another statuette to add to his gong for Gladiator. The mercurial Ron Howard directs with gusto, but for a biopic, this take on Nash's life has more than a few dramatic liberties taken with some of the more important aspects of his life-story. So he was a genius, a paranoid schizophrenic, and prone to delusions, but he was good at…

I guess I can see why it would be big when it came out, but watching it now, for me it was just kind of meh. Also, I really disliked how they substituted some historical accuracy for wanting to make a pleasing storyline for the audience.

Although there was amazing cinematography, a good soundtrack, and I liked the happy ending of him finding his niche of math and teaching, in the end the plot didn't really flow nicely and it felt more like a sequence of events rather than a story, and it felt a little sloppy with all the time jumps. Although some films can smooth into time jumps to tell a story of a character, this one didn't…