Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

baileyliu So as a fan of math and Asa Butterfield I really expected something out of this film...And from the trailers and clips I watched I thought this is going to be great...But it turns out the film in general is too BLAND. So there wasn't much excitement within this film. The between romance between Zhengmei and Nathan in this film is also quite bland, with a bitch on the UK math team that eventually ruined it. The romance between Mr. Humphrey and Nathan's mom didn't come to a full circle either. After all the kisses and such,did they marry each other finally or live together? There are a lot of things that leave the audiences to question and I personally don't like that. So the ending basically made the film worse. A lot of other things didn't come to full circle neither. How did the UK team do on IMO? Did nathan escape with Zhangmei or something happened(I just can't figure it out it's really vague at the end when Nathan holds Zhangmei's hand on the train)? When Mr. Humphrey locked the other man (I forget his name) in the IMO room what happened? At the end it just feels like: Oh what, that's it?But there are still some good things: the cultural exchange portraited in this film is quite interesting. And the fact that this film is about math and autism made it unique. It was nice to watch except at the end, and it kinda motivates me to study math.

Ian (Flash Review)An honest look of life through the eyes of a socially awkward, mathematics wiz. This young boy is found to have highly advanced aptitude with numbers which offset his social interaction abilities. Over a few years, he is taught by a former math genius who has MS and is trying to help his pupil get into a world-wide Math Olympics before his body fails him. While the film is fairly light on math, considering the subject, it focuses more on this boys relationships with his mother, teacher, female interest, other math teammates as well as gaining his personal confidence all from the perspective of a person that may have some level of Aspergers. The film engineered many scenarios for the boy to interact socially and how his personality matured and grew. He almost takes comfort and hides under numbers to avoid human interactions so in the end will he be able to uncloak himself from numbers and enhance his human relationships? The cinematography was stellar and this subject was able to generate true tension at times. A noble storytelling effort.

leatrix-483-54630 I've given this movie (It was listed as X&Y on the TV subscription channel I was watching it on) a rating of 9; like many reviewers of this beautiful film, it would have been a 10 had the ending not jarred with the original premise of the film, which I took to be Autistic savant teen struggles socially at a Maths Olympiad, with a side story of how Mum copes *spoiler* as a single parent and how Nathan (the teen in question) finds love and tries to explain it logically.Of course, having a nineteen year old Aspergers son who at 15 years old won awards at space school for astrophysics, then sadly felt completely overwhelmed when trying for his A Levels at college, this movie was a real 'look' into my son's world for me. Asa Butterfield was superb showing that you don't need words to get how you're truly feeling across, and the nervous socially inept struggles Nathan feels, are certainly true for my son, and of course, I couldn't help feeling for Mum, especially after years of little conversation, no real cuddles myself, but I will also say, there is dark humour in the movie; the Chinese prime number takeaway order ringing a 'laugh or you'll cry' moment in our house.There's lot of intricacies to this film which awash over you, but on second/third viewing come into focus; the girl who couldn't bear Nathan having another love interest, the beautiful cinematography that made you realise you were experiencing another country as a tourist would, and many more (the heartbreaking Parrot scene..I won't say anymore here; best experienced first hand).Literally the only reason this amazing film, scored a 9 rating instead of 10, was the complete confusion I experienced with the ending. *SPOILER* It wasn't clear whether love, his Dad etc caused nearly all his autistic behaviour to disappear, and I felt like I'd watched a film that showed the struggle autistic young people go through, only to feel that 'oh OK, so if my son gets a girl, or gets over a past hurt in his life, all his rigidity will simply disappear'; I don't believe this would be the case, and my son agreed.So just my tuppence worth; and for all I've said, I do adore the film, the sadness, humour, understanding etc, and as it's Autism Week, I love that it's been brought to our attention more.

The_late_Buddy_Ryan Nathan (Asa Butterfield) hits the "based on a true story" trifecta as a math prodigy who's solidly on the spectrum and suffers from PTSD. As with other such movies we've seen, including "Philomena" and "The Imitation Game," this one's quite watchable but a little disappointing—seems like the script had to be tinkered with too much to fill out the standard story arc and meet the expectations of mainstream viewers. This is docmaker Morgan Matthews's first fiction film, and in the best scenes, Nathan's just wandering around Taipei with his Chinese study buddy (Jo Yang), Hou Hsiao-hsien–style. Somehow the relationships between Nathan, his neuronormal mum and his tutor—a disappointed guy who makes bitter, though sometime very funny little jokes about his debilitating illness—didn't quite click for me. I was looking forward to a Mike Leigh stock-company reunion, what with Eddie Marsan and Rafe (son of Timothy) Spall, though I'm worried that fabulous Sally Hawkins ("Happy-Go-Lucky") might be getting typecast these days as the fubsy, put-upon mum (cf. Woody's "Blue Jasmine"). Despite the weaknesses of the screenplay, the performances were all first rate—Jake Davies totally nails it as a would-be Math Olympian who's afraid he's not quite "clever" enough (for his abrasive aspie mannerisms to pass muster). Kudos to the screenwriter (or the "maths" consultant or whoever) for picking a number-theory problem for Nathan to solve in a way that even a dummy like me could follow