Lazy Film Critic reviews....
The Theory of Everything is a movie about Stephen Hawking, and Stephen Hawkings life, including the story about how the guy did some really awesome science related stuff, relating to black holes and space time relativity stuff. Forgive me for not knowing the technical terms. However, the film is surprisingly more focused on the relationship between him and his wife Jane Hawking, which has some pretty important details on Hawkings life. Don't let that change the fact that this is a biopic, this movie is by no means a romance. The film stars Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as Jan Hawking.
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| Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking |
I'm just going to get straight to the point, you all know I was going to talk about this. Eddie Redmaynes performance in The Theory of Everything is on another level of acting. There was never a single real point during this movie where I thought that this was acting, by which I mean it seemed like Eddie Redmayne actually had Lou Gerricks disease (incase you don't know what that is, it's the reason you all dumped buckets of ice water on yourselves last summer). As the film progressed, you could see Redmayne having to go through entirely different kinds of performances, which gave the feeling of a slowly progressive disease. The point is, Eddie Redmayne was completely convincing as not only Stephen Hawking, but as someone with Lou Gerricks disease, which should easily earn him the oscar.
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| Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking |
Everyone's talked about Eddie Redmaynes performance in this movie, you all probably knew exactly what I was going to say. Less talked about overall is Felicity Jones in this movie, who also does a fantastic job. She was convincing in the role, she did a good job playing kind of the emotional driving force of the film, and played a character who was fairly relatable. The really impressive part is that her performance is good enough to hold its own with Eddie Redmaynes powerhouse performance. Most of the time a good perfomance will be hugely overshadows when there's another oscar winning performance in the film. So, for Felicity Jones to have given a performance memorable enough for it to not be overshadowed by Redmayne is amazing.
Other than the amazing lead performances, this movie's got really good cinematography. Not "The Raid 2" kind where there's these vibrant colors that stand out from the rest, but more like some really awesome looking filters. At first, it can be a little annoying, the whole film kind of seems like it was all captured on Instagram. However, as the film goes on, the filters are more and more well picked, and you can see the director put a good amount of thought into which filter for which scene.
Final Rating
The Theory of Everything is one of the more interesting biopics from last year, and it has two really great performances. The visuals in this film are stunning, and it's a really sad story. While I didn't tear up in this movie like I thought I would (I am no stranger to tearing up in a movie theatre, just go look at me watching The Imitation Game). However, it's still a great story, and a moving one at that.
The Theory of Everything is one of the more interesting biopics from last year, and it has two really great performances. The visuals in this film are stunning, and it's a really sad story. While I didn't tear up in this movie like I thought I would (I am no stranger to tearing up in a movie theatre, just go look at me watching The Imitation Game). However, it's still a great story, and a moving one at that.
The Theory of Everything: 4.5/5
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