Rotten
The humor is relentlessly cruel, smug, and disconnected from any sense of how human beings might behave in similar situations.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Real Genius
When he gets mad, he doesn't get even… he gets creative.
1985 · 1h 46m · PG
Comedy, Romance, Science Fiction
Directed by
Martha Coolidge
Overview
When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.
Director and cast
- Martha Coolidge Director
- Val Kilmer as Chris Knight
- Gabriel Jarret as Mitch Taylor
- Michelle Meyrink as Jordan Cochran
- William Atherton as Prof. Jerry Hathaway
- Robert Prescott as Kent
- Deborah Foreman as Susan Decker
- Louis Giambalvo as Major Carnagle
- Jon Gries as Lazlo Hollyfeld
- Ed Lauter Cast
- Stacy Peralta Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It does make you wonder if the drive of the US education system is ultimately to develop better weapons of mass-destruction, though Coolidge's movie is too hazily good-natured to capitalise on the tougher aspects of the material.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
What the film needs, instead of these familiar teen-movie trappings, is a cleverness and eccentricity to match that of its characters. For the most part, these are qualities that it lacks.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
Real Genius contains many pleasures, but one of the best is its conviction that the American campus contains life as we know it.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
What lifts the production above the run-of-the-mill is swift direction by Martha Coolidge, who has a firm grasp over the manic material.
Variety
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