Kinsey

The tagline for this Bill Condon written and directed biopic is "Let's Talk about Sex", and that's great, but when the movie doesn't talk about sex, it becomes boring, despite its great performances.

Liam Neeson plays Alfred Kinsey, who leave his passion for gall wasps (some insects) aside, and start researching about sex. The movie has brought up so much controversy, as Kinsey researched about, taught about sex to students, and even wrote best selling books, but always having problems because of the barriers he was breaking.
Neeson is great, as is Laura Linney who plays his wife Clara. Also great is Peter Sarsgaard, who plays Kinsey's assistant Clyde, who at one point was his and Clara's lover.
There's a bunch of good performances besides those three like John Lithgow who plays Kinsey's father, Chris O'Donnell and Timothy Hutton who also play assistants, and Oliver Platt and Tim Curry playing Kinsey's colleagues in the University.

Kinsey's story is a good one (despite him saying in the movie that it would be stupid to make a movie about himself) and for the first hour is great and entertaining, as Kinsey teach his students about sex, and see him and his assistants researching. Also good was the chemistry between Neeson, Linney and Sarsgaard which made their scenes together very good.
After that first hour, the movie slows down, as Kinsey starts having problems because of is books, and also having health problems, which made the movie end in a more serious note that kind of made me not completely like it.
There was another great performance towards the end, which should've been how the movie ended, and it was Oscar Nominee and Golden Globe Winner Lynn Redgrave, who appears in the movie for a very powerful scene that puts Kinsey high up there and makes him a true savior.

Earlier today I filled out an Oscar Predictions card, and I nominated the leads of Kinsey: Neeson for Best Actor and Linney for Best Supporting Actress. None of them winning. I also put Saarsgard as my 6th Supporting Actor with David Carradine (Kill Bill vol2) getting the 5th spot. I hadn't seen the movie when I filled it out, so I was just talking using reviews and word of mouth as reference for them three. After watching the movie now, I still think it'll go that way, with Neeson being the one who could probably be left out. His performance is great, but the second half is too problematic which made it not so enjoyable, and there were many other great to excellent performances this year.