Friday, 13 March 2015

A poor imitation of life

The Imitation Game (2014)

Directed by Morten Tyldum this biographical film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode and Mark Strong. During WW2 a genius mathematician is recruited to help break the top German encryption.

The life of Alan Turing contains many great achievements and terrible treatment by the establishment but sadly instead of telling his story this film wanders far too deeply into fantasy land. By over stating Turing's involvement and achievements as well as changing his personality and adding ridiculous fantasy versions of events the script is a massive disservice to Turing. Benedict Cumberbatch gives a really good performance but when the script is so far off the mark it's a bit of an exercise in futility really.


2/5

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