Excellently inspiring and faithful depiction of Stephen Hawking from Cumberbatch. The films itself isn't that brilliant but better than the Theory of Everything movie, though Redmayne did a good job too. The problem with both films, and any film about Stephen Hawking's life, is that magnitude of Stephen's academic achievements are far and beyond what the lay person can understand or appreciate with an explanation in a 2 hour movie. So when the film tries to show what it is he actually discovered and achieved it's difficult for us to really be impressed because we have no idea what is being talked about. Both films could have done better with communicating this to the audience. And therefore what any film on Stephen should focus on is his character and what he had to overcome to achieve what he did. Both films got lost in quasi scientific references which to the layman aren't interesting, and I imagine to the experts are cheesy and simplistic.