The Theory of Everything: Eddie Redmayne's Best Actor Bait

HBO started showing The Theory of Everything, the story of Stephen Hawking and his life/relationship with his wife. I was excited knowing Redmayne beat a LOADED field to win Best Actor at the Oscar's, but I was not overly impressed with his performance. I think he played Hawking VERY well, but, and this is going to be horribly offensive, he didn't have to do all that much for the majority of the movie. I also wasn't an enormous fan that the movie didn't do a great job of talking about Hawking's numerous breakthroughs in Science/Math and I also thought it didn't do a great job of showing his family life, though that was the intent. It's a very visually stunning film that does explain some of Stephen Hawking's remarkable life and that is a achievement. Bottom Line: 8.2 out of 10. Very good film, but the struggles that I didn't like are noted above. Very good film with very good performances, but it's like generically saying "he's a nice guy".