Particle Fever (2013)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2013
	Director: Mark Levinson
	Actors: Martin Aleksa, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos
	Country: USA
	Genre: Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 23.03.2015, HD VOD, 11" computer screen
Synopsis: About the building of the Large Hadron Collider and the discover of the Higgs Boson.
Review: The 30-years story that leads to the building of the European LHC Particle Accelerator and the discovery of the Higgs Boson is an amazing scientific odyssey. Its last years are reflected in this movie: from a few months before the first beam (opening of the LHC) to this mediatic event, then the accident that delayed the project of many months, the first collisions, the wait and finally the announcement of the discovery of the so-called "God's particle" in presence of its name-giver Peter Higgs. We follow some actors in the field: a post-doc experimentalist, three generations of theoriticists, and the manager of one of the instruments that made the discovery. Unfortunately the documentary looks and feels cheap at times, although it is edited in a way to build up tension and create suspense at times. In the end barely better than a TV report.
Rating: 4 /10