A Beautiful Mind DVD > Reviews

Advantages: Its Weird
Disadvantages: Its Weird

A Beautiful Mind…….. This Is A Must See Movie…….. This film has been put forward for a few Oscar awards including Best Film and Best Actor. It is directed by the ever talented Ron Howard and has a star line up with Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Ed Harris and Chrisopher Plummer….The film runs for 135 minutes and carries a certificate 12……. Our two main characters are Crowe and ... Read review

Advantages: excellent portrayal of mental illness, well casted, beautiful script, realistic
Disadvantages: None that I can tell.

...Henrik Tikkanen “A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.” Kenneth Tynan You wouldn’t believe it unless you saw it with your own eyes. How many times have you seen things and taken it for truth. After all, you saw it with you own eyes, didn’t you? What if you couldn’t trust your own eyes. What if you couldn’t tell the difference between seeing it and know it to be real. What if you couldn’t ... Read review

Advantages: Some stunning performances, gripping
Disadvantages: Overblown sentimentality and a dodgy soundtrack

...to write my op on A Beautiful Mind (henceforth ABM) right after I saw it as when there's a few days delay (like with O11) I tend to only remember the bad, not the good. So here it is. A simple rundown of the story: The film is an almost biopic of genius mathematician and ultimately Nobel Prize Winner John Nash and his descent into and dealings with schizophrenia. The bulk of the film is about his early years 1946-1960, althoughthe narrative ... Read review

Advantages: brilliant movie
Disadvantages: a tad slow, ending hastened

... A journey it is , a journey through a mind of a mathematical genius , sounds interesting isn't it, well there's a twist to it, he is a schizophrenic. A Beautiful Mind directed by Ron Howard stars Oscar winner Russel Crowe, Jenniffer Connely, Chrishtopher Plummer and Ed harris in lead roles. This movie is based on a book by Slyvia Nasar which is a true story about Dr John Nash a celebrated mathematic genius whose theories have revolutionized Economics. ... Read review

Advantages: Brillantly written, good characters, fab portrayal of schizophrenia
Disadvantages: Apparently not accurate about Nash's life, a bit too long, lovey-dovey ending

I have a confession - I'm a psychologist. So, like historians who despise films like Gladiator, I get very upset with films that attempt to portray psychology-relevant topics. Now, I am well aware of the poor reputation of psychology and the problems within the discipline, but I think it is still distressing to see poor representations of major issues like mental health within the media. I believe it is important that these things are well represented ... Read review

Advantages: A look into a schizophrenic mind
Disadvantages: None

...not this is true, but A BEAUTIFUL MIND, helped me to see what a brilliant person goes through when they also suffer from schizophrenia and what they see and do. This performance by Russell Crowe, as Dr. John Nash, a brilliant mathematician who, although unknown to the viewer at the time, shows signs of schizophrenia upon entering Princeton University, is Oscar calibre material as far as I am concerned. This is a true story about Dr. John Nash, ... Read review

Advantages: Interesting Life, Good acting and directing, You'll want to find out more about Nash
Disadvantages: Fabrication of the truth, Slow in places

...about free tickets!), I had a chance to see this Oscar nominated film for free at a preview screening. I didn’t have any idea what it was going to be like except it was based on a real life genius called John Nash who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 and before I saw the film I had no prior knowledge about his life. It’s going to be quite hard to review this film on Ciao as it depends on how much you know about John Nash already. So my approach ... Read review

Advantages: Riveting, Outstanding Performances by Cast, Unforgettable
Disadvantages: None

...as John Nash, who is a brilliant, yet paranoid schizophrenic, mathematical genius. I’ve often heard that there is a fine line between genius and insanity. This is clearly the case with Dr. Nash. The film begins when Nash is a student at Princeton University, pursuing his doctorate. Although the viewer notices some personality quirks with Nash, it is unclear just how serious his problems are. Nash is considered the West Virginian oddball prodigy ... Read review

Advantages: Some good acting.
Disadvantages: Dull, cliched, badly researched, inaccurate, trite...

...and A Beautiful Mind is a fairly terrible thing to watch. I have a real hard time with movies on the whole. Because I love them so much I tend to read a lot about them…so I have had twists revealed by careless magazine articles before, or seen pictures of cool stuff because I was too impatient to wait to see how Gollum was to be realised in the Lord of the Rings movies, for example. By the same token, I had read many conflicting reviews of this ... Read review

Advantages: Great film in my opinion
Disadvantages: None!

...(played by Russell Crowe) is a mathematician who needs to find an original idea for a paper to obtain a Government placement at Princeton University, part of this being to teach students. Despite stress holding him back, he corrects another mathematician’s theory. Adam’s theory was that ‘the best possible result comes from each member of a group doing what’s best for himself’. Nash stated that this was incomplete and that is should say, ‘the ... Read review

Advantages: In a special way a man like every man
Disadvantages: American English was a bit hard for me the first 10 minutes

...I didn`t speak for such a long time after a film was, when I saw "Rainman", and I have the same swollen eyes now and my husband no more handkerchiefs. I don`t want to tell the whole story, for there are certainly many people, who didn`t see the film. I did nt know anything about the story and the famous John Nash, who is still alive. I did not even know, that it is the story of a real person. The story begins in Princeton, University, where ... Read review

Advantages: Absolutely everything
Disadvantages: Quite sad, can make you question your reality

A Beautiful Mind is film that can be described, simply, as beautiful. A beautiful Mind is based on the novel by Sylvia Nasar of the same title. Both mediums tell us about the life (mainly college onwards) of the great mathematician, John Nash. We are firs introduced to Nash on his first day of Princeton University. From this moment on, the audience sees the majority of the film through John’s eyes. He isn’t the most social character but gosh, he is ... Read review