It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I found this film to be an interesting and engrossing account of the Life of Alfred Kinsey,played by liam Neeson.whether you like him or not,if the movie is any indication,he was a pioneer in the area of sexual research.at the very least he changed the way peopled look at and perceive sex.he's no doubt a polarizing figure.some people ,I'm sure,reviled him while others applauded him.the movie is very in its language and its depiction of sex,i all its forms.there is some quite graphic language as well as some explicit nudity,but it's shown in a tasteful way and not just gratuitous.it definitely earns its 18A rating though.this is not a film for everybody.some may find it offensive.i didn't but that just me.for me,Kinsey is an 8/10

Kinsey examines the work and methodology of human sexuality by Professor Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) whose publication took 1940s America by storm and also aroused controversy.The film tries to take a scientific approach to human sexuality and hence tries to take a detached, clinical approach to the story in order to make the subject of sex impersonal. However in doing this they rather made the characters in the film impersonal as well which was probably not the writer/director Bill Condon's intention.The film has an interesting opening but when you see Kinsey as an adult its clear that Neeson is too old to play Kinsey in his 20s and it seems they have given him some helium to make his voice lighter for that part of the film.As a biopic its breezy enough but I felt it was shallow. There is very little we know about the man or his wife after the film ends. One moment we see his kids as teenagers and then they disappear, we see some resolve with his horrible father who unloads a childhood trauma when interviewed by his son and that is it. Its almost film as a fast food serving. One moment Kinsey is the toast of the town, his book is a bestseller and then he is a pariah, losing funding and J Edgar Hoover after him.The film is competently acted although Neeson does well as the older Kinsey rather than the younger version. John Lithgow impresses in the early scenes of the film.

'Kinsey' loves and has great admiration for Alfred Kinsey. Kinsey and his legacy defy anything conventional and filmmaker Bill Condon does not put Kinsey through the cookie cutter bio-pic formula. The bio pic is as boring and cliché as any formula Hollywood mass produces. With a subject like Alfred Kinsey there is a temptation to exploit the subject for all the theatrical details and yet the film does not exploit Kinsey. 'Kinsey' is frank and this frankness is refreshing. The film is not about the rise and fall of Kinsey and the little sideshow 'sexcapades'. Condon has written a great script that plays into the strengths of it's title character. Alfred Kinsey was a scientist who studied sex because he believed he could help people through his theories and that is what 'Kinsey' is about. The central theme of the film is Kinsey's quest to help people through his work. Never does the discussion of sex become gratuitous. Condon and Neeson don't try to portray Kinsey as a preacher or philosopher because he wasn't, although people try to portray him as one. This was a surprise to me. Usually films like 'Kinsey' are only interested in the sexual abnormalities of it's subject. There are areas in the film involving Kinsey's sex life where Condon could very easily have tried to emotionally skew the audiences but he doesn't. Sex is such a philosophical topic that to see a scientific and often non emotional take on it was quite odd. In retrospect though it is completely in character with Kinsey. Kinsey wanted to peel away the societal preconceptions about sex and study it as a science. 'Kinsey' isn't a film about sex but rather the scientist who studied sex. The central character arc of Kinsey as the scientist is always at the forefront of the story.Liam Neeson gives a brilliant performance as Alfred Kinsey which has a surprisingly uplifting feel. He really is a fascinating character and I imagine Neeson had to delve deep in character study to do the man justice. Like the script, Neeson also portrays Kinsey as a scientist. I love how for much of the film Neeson portrays a sense of awkwardness. Kinsey is frankly a bookish nerd who for most of the film has a better relationship with his gall wasps than he does with other people. It is the passion for science that makes Kinsey a dynamic character and Neeson performance portrays this to a key. The character goes through struggles but they aren't superficial material struggles. I thought Neeson would be forced to give a hammy death bed declaration of principles about how he had to overcome so much but he doesn't. Kinsey is brought to lows and they have to do with a fear of failing people who could have been helped by his research. I loved this approach and the gravitas of a Liam Neeson makes Condon's exploration of this character all the more accessible and relatable. There is a tragic moment in the film where Kinsey's wife discovers Kinsey in the bathroom reading letters with his foreskin bleeding from violent masturbation lamenting his failures and limitations. In the wrong hands such material would seem contrived and overtly stagy but in the capable hands of Liam Neeson we see Alfred Kinsey as conflicted but real. Dynamic figures deserve respect and Bill Condon and Liam Neeson clearly respect Alfred Kinsey.

The father of Sexology, Alfred Kinsey himself can only be defined as a man without fear, or limit in the quest he took to further examine the nature of human sexuality in the various forms it expresses itself. He would penetrate the strongest of barriers, showing his utmost direct attention, leaving very little to be unexamined. With a performance as serious and upfront performed by Liam Neeson, you'll have no choice but to wonder why it wasn't serious enough for a best actor Oscar nomination. In the course of the film we viewers witness Alfred Kinsey live life with a curiosity in biology, particularly that if Gall Wasps, leading him to the midpoint of his career to further develop a keen interest into the numerous types of sexual practices people engage in, and why exactly they do it. He ignores all barriers in this quest, hiring a team of students wise enough to be trained to a form of sophistication that enables them to question people with similar curiosity about there sexuality. The film's intro is proof of their direct form of interviewing, asking people when they first choked their bishops, had sex with someone for the first time, or if by luck whether they've ever experimented with the same sex. Kinsey took out all the social qualities which contribute to sex. Hell his wife Mac (Linney) proved to be helpful when she herself divulged herself into what many would call the insanity of her husbands quest for the full truth about sex. The Kinsey Scale was a scale, which ranges from 0 to 6, where 0 being exclusively heterosexual and 6 being exclusively homosexual. This form of mesauring an individual's sexual curiosity became quite useful, especially to it's inventor when he himself had a casul sexual experience with his assistant/student Clyde Matrin (Saarsgard). The moment was a spur to both, leaving Kinsey with the option of learning why he felt this form of sexual identification, when he clearly was married, having never any homosexual feelings, proving further that human's sexual behavior is different. There is a more common form of human sexiality, with men being attracted to women, leaving the possibility of the less, but still noticeable homosexual, and bisexual participants. In the mist of his research he published 2 novels, in regards to the sexual behavior of both sexes. One novel being for the male sex, while the other novel being in regards to the female sex. Despite the controversy towards his works and the disrespect it showed to the many people who understandably valued the penetration of sex as a taboo, Kinsey continued using what he had with the Rockafellar foundation to continue his research. The film ends with Kinsey still facing the controversy over the publication of his 2nd work, but not leaving him with doubt. In an interview an unnamed woman, Kinsey sees the very work he's dedicated his work too has not only given him more accurate looks into the various forms of sexual practice, but also the answers some very unhappy people were looking for. There a lot of people out in this world who are never aware, nor brave enough to come to terms with their own sexuality, leaving them very deppressed, lacking in confidence, and furthermore persecuted by others. I can't say Kinsey was completely right when it came to discovering all these facts, however I will say he has a lot of balls to actuall attempt something so bold . I mean he had his own research assitants have sex with various peole for the purpose of further study. His wife Mac was apart of that research. Nevertheless peole do what they have to to get answers, which often may see them as strange, but in some cases uniques, and that's what I truly think about a guy like Alfread Kinsey, someone who really digs deep to find whatever forms of truth the search requires.