Hawking is the extraordinary story of the planet's most famous living scientist, told for the first time in his own words and by those closest to him.
A genuinely three-dimension life portrayal of an extraordinary mind.
For all its detail, Hawking the man remains somewhat unknown.
Hawking emerges from this as an inspirational man; with such a colossus, Finnigan could have afforded to be more questioning.
It's a portrait for the fans – earnest, uplifting, frictionless.
The problem here is not the material, it’s what Finnigan does – or doesn’t – do with it.
Perhaps it was too much to hope that a documentary portrait of Stephen Hawking would be approached in a way that was more commensurate with this extraordinary man’s life and achievements – but was there really any need to make Hawking quite so ordinary?
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