[martinr]

Great thought provoking movie...WWII history that changed the course of the war.  Highly recommend! 

[persisting1]

Good film. Sad story.

[soundbitten1]

Excellent. Highly recommended.

[Rob Babcock]

I loved it.  Great cast, great story.

[GerryD]

If you have Netflix streaming, "Codebreaker" is a docudrama on the same topic that makes an excellent companion piece to the movie.

[Hugh]

I got to watch it then.

Thanks for sharing.

[stlrman]

I'm looking forward to watching the dvd this week!!!

[wushuliu]

Well made by the numbers oscar bait. BC overdid his performance with autistic tics and although creative license is expected basically none of the major beats or events were accurate. It is a purely manipulative tear jerker.

There's no evidence Turing was autistic he did not invent the machine he did not select kiera from crosswords he did not name machine Christopher he was not a suspected spy he was not emotionally stunted etc etc etc.

It would have been a better movie if they went factual. They really made up a lot of stuff.

Performances were solid.

[ajzepp]

Well made by the numbers oscar bait. BC overdid his performance with autistic tics and although creative license is expected basically none of the major beats or events were accurate. It is a purely manipulative tear jerker.

There's no evidence Turing was autistic he did not invent the machine he did not select kiera from crosswords he did not name machine Christopher he was not a suspected spy he was not emotionally stunted etc etc etc.

It would have been a better movie if they went factual. They really made up a lot of stuff.

Performances were solid.

Hey brother...those are my cheerios ur peeing in.

[wushuliu]

Just calling em like I see 'em bruh. On a positive note the film definitely makes me want to read the book it is, er, loosely based on.

But one last complaint (probably not): casting BC was clever but manipulative in that he has a very unusual look that I think plays into the emotionally stunted genius shtick. Look up Turing on Google Images though and you find that he was actually a pretty handsome dude. In fact I would say the actor who played his 'foil' on the team, Hugh(?), looks more like Turing than BC. I think an actor like that would have been a much more interesting exercise in contrasts.

To me the movie is just riddled with shortcuts like that. Moments and acting and choices that stand for familiar tropes and makes no effort to flesh them out.