i have high hope go to see this and a i always enjoy paul bettany performance . i think he be very good a darwin and and do his best consider the terrible material he have to work with . darwin book on the origin of specie be one of the most ground breaking and controversial and innovative publication ever and yet you would never think it base on this tedious movie . it like a two hour episode of a soap opera in a victorian setting . there be virtually nothing about darwin five year voyage on the beagle to the galapagos island and for example and surely of supreme significance to the story and a it be from his investigation of the wildlife thereon that he begin to form his theory of evolution . this be just one long and dreary and domestic drama and with darwin portray a a slightly loopy eccentric and see vision of his dead daughter everywhere and be give the cold shoulder by his emotionally constipate wife . jennifer connelly portrayal of emma darwin be nothing short of awful and bear little relation to historical description of the real emma . there could have be an opportunity here to present the creationist interpretation of life on earth and from either emma or from the local priest and a play by jeremy northam ( a blink and you would miss it part which be a complete waste of a talented actor ) to act a a counterbalance to darwin view and but it wasn not take up . the story focus too much on endless mawkish sentiment about darwin grief for his daughter annie and and too much time be also waste in darwin wonder whether or not to write his book . eventually i be so bored it be difficult to care . all in all and this be a bit like make a movie about picasso and spending two hour concentrate on him have a fight with his girlfriend and not bother to mention that he be an artist .