Flash of Genius

An Everyman Inventor Fights the Detroit Goliaths

“Flash of Genius” is a doggedly workmanlike variation of an old story: the lone crusader doing battle with the big bad establishment. Picture Jimmy Stewart as a passionately outraged everyman speaking truth to power, then take away the passion.
What gives the movie a frisson of freshness is that the little guy is based on an actual person, Dr. Robert W. Kearns (Greg Kinnear), an electrical engineer and college professor who in the late 1960s invented and patented the intermittent windshield wiper. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (4190 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 3 Ottobre 2008