Mitch Taylor, a 15-year-old genius, is accepted into a special college program. As part of the course he joins a special project, run by the renowned scientist Professor Jerry Hathaway and involving Chris Knight, a student whose genius is legendary. The project is to build a high energy laser but Hathaway is struggling to make progress. Taylor also discovers that his hero Chris Knight is now a party animal. Little do the students know that their project is essentially to build a weapon for the military.
Real Genius had some potential as a comedy but pretty much coasts the whole way without raising too many laughs. The idea seems to be to shock you with the thought that uber-smart kids can have fun, and then show them having fun. The thought wasn't shocking the first time round, so why try it dozens of times?
There are a few good jokes but they're few and far between.
If it was meant to be a drama (which I doubt), it's a pretty weak one. The plot is largely quite predictable and trite and the action of the farcical escapade type.
Underwhelming and lightly entertaining, at best.
Real Genius had some potential as a comedy but pretty much coasts the whole way without raising too many laughs. The idea seems to be to shock you with the thought that uber-smart kids can have fun, and then show them having fun. The thought wasn't shocking the first time round, so why try it dozens of times?
There are a few good jokes but they're few and far between.
If it was meant to be a drama (which I doubt), it's a pretty weak one. The plot is largely quite predictable and trite and the action of the farcical escapade type.
Underwhelming and lightly entertaining, at best.