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| DIRECTED BY |
| Ron Howard |
| STARRING |
| Russell Crowe |
| Ed Harris |
| Jennifer Connelly |
| Christopher Plummer |
| Paul Bettany |
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John Nash, by all means, deserves the public recognition that he has received in recent years; the man is a mathematical genius. However, it�s a shame that this film had to try to transfer the genius of his mind into cinematic terms, because what it results in is nothing more than a garbled mess of ridiculousness.
Ron Howard is a consistent director of crowd-pleasing movies, and when he takes on a storyline that doesn�t twist itself around simply for the sake of veiling itself as something a lot more complex than it needs to be, I tend to respect the guy. But if John Nash�s life story was really what they were gunning for here, then there really was no need for such a verbose amount of trickery other than to squeeze as much exaggerated illogicality out of the truth as they possibly can.
The denouement works minimally as a triumph of the human mind, but by this point in time I was feeling as if I had been juggled around with by an amateur juggler for far too long. If Ron Howard wanted to make an inspiring film about one man�s life, then he should have been more honest instead of disguising it with the ambiguities of a David Lynch film, because that�s what ultimately makes 'A Beautiful Mind' seem like an ostentatious fraud.
