Good
Will Hunting
(1997)
Rated: R
Runtime: 2 Hours and 6 Minutes
Reviewer: Erik
Grade: CI refuse to believe, by any stretch of the imagination, that THIS is the movie everyone and their mother said was the greatest thing since sliced bread. THIS?! Nuh-uh. Can't be.
"Good Will Hunting" tells the ho-hum story of Will Hunting, a smart guy working a janitor job at a university. One day, he solves a posted math problem no one can get, and when a professor notices, he takes a liking to Will.
This gets the ball rolling, sort of. I dunno. Will is friends with a bunch of trouble-making hooligans who have low-paying jobs, and he soon is in trouble. The professor bails him out, provided he can quiz Will and learn from him, and one of the necessary steps is that he see a psychiatrist.
So off Will goes to see the psychiatrist, played by Robin Williams, and the two jostle back and forth for large segments of the movie. Hold on, I gotta yawn. There. Good. Will meets a girl in a bar (Minnie Driver) and they get a little bit of the romance going.
The best thing about the movie is Robin Williams' performance. He's highly-effective as he tells his life stories, once the two finally get to like one another. Of course, there comes a point where Will isn't sure if he really cares for Minnie Driver's character.
Whatever. A lot of this movie flat-out bores you to death. And it DISGUSTS me to think this movie won the Oscar for best original screenplay. What's so damn original about it? This movie is flat and lifeless. To think "Boogie Nights" lost the screenplay Oscar to THIS...makes me wanna puke...
"Good Will Hunting" is the most overrated movie to come along in ages.