I went to this movie as a layman, seeing it because it would probably be good for me—educational—but also thinking it would probably be hard work. But I was riveted and the movie flew by faster than a James Bond movie. Many physicists will certainly wish the movie dug deeper into the actual physics, but it's partly because it didn't that I found it not just good for me but good fun. One minor quibble is that the face of the killing of the construction of a particle accelerator in Texas was put on two Republican congressmen (clips are shown of them complaining it was too expensive) and no Democrats. But it was a bipartisan decision. Here's a quote from an article in the 7/6/12 "The Atlantic": "'I'm not saying there isn't a lot of elegant science that can be gleaned from this, but that's what it is: elegant,' Senator Dale Bumpers, a Democrat, told the 'New York Times' in March 1993. 'We can't afford elegance now.'" Again: bipartisan.
A great movie.
A great movie.