Imitation Game (The)
- Director: Morten Tyldum
- Writer: Graham Moore
- Producer: Nora Grossman; Peter Heslop
CGiii Comment
To be truthful...rather damn disappointing...and, we are not ashamed to admit it.
A collective howl of: Why?!?
6 of us sat down to watch this...each on on the edge of their seat. Not a sound, the anticipation was more intoxicating than a sweaty armpit.
Someone commented...Shhh!
Then, someone else commented...Mmm, you do have a point.
The writing is weak...furthermore, it is negligent and fraudulently inaccurate.
The performances are all fine, nothing special, definitely not Oscar-worthy...Cumberbatch's Turing, perhaps, a little heavy-handed...by all accounts, Alan was a rather jovial chap. Not here...it wouldn't fit with the obvious agenda.
And, it has to be said, the green screen work is atrocious...for a film with this kind of budget.
Alan Turing deserved better, much better...he deserved an exposé on the way he was treated after the war by the great British establishment...not a botched rendition of his achievements.
This would have been a very different film if the Weinstein Brothers hadn't been involved...those devout, agenda-laden masters of Hollistory.
Formulaic, fictionalized fact. An affront.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
Cast & Characters
Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing;
Keira Knightley as Joan Clarke;
Mark Strong;
Matthew Goode as Hugh Alexander;
Charles Dance; Allen Leech;
Vanessa Kirby as Helen;
Rory Kinnear;
Tom Goodman-Hill as Sergeant Staehl;
Lee Asquith-Coe as MI6 Agent