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When science whiz Mitch Taylor arrives at Pacific Tech as a freshman, he's paired up with genius senior Chris Knight to work on a laser project. But Mitch and his brilliant roommate Chris soon begin to suspect that something is amiss with Hathaway's project.
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.
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.
May 20, 2003
Chicago Sun-Times
Real Genius contains many pleasures, but one of the best is its conviction that the American campus contains life as we know it.