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- In the end, The Imitation Game is a fantastic piece of historical theater that never fully embraces its cinematic identity. The subject matter alone sets it apart as more interesting and insightful than the average movie memoir - and combined with the performances of Cumberbatch and Co., it's definitely a winner.
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Nov 27, 2014 · How odd that “The Imitation Game,” one of the more rousingly entertaining crowd-pleasers coming out this holiday season—as endorsed by its People’s Choice Award at the Toronto film festival—also happens to be one of the most devastatingly sad.
90% 287 Reviews Tomatometer 91% 100,000+ Ratings Audience Score In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to...
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- Morten Tyldum
- PG-13
- Benedict Cumberbatch
Nov 17, 2014 · The Imitation Game review – an engrossing and poignant thriller. Benedict Cumberbatch’s excellent performance gives added complexity to a fine account of the life of codebreaker Alan Turing....
- 23 min
- Mark Kermode
The Imitation Game Reviews. The movie goes beyond requiem thanks to Cumberbatch's performance, the supporting actors and the surprising intensity of a spy thriller set mainly in two rooms...
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By Matt Patches
Posted: Sep 9, 2014 3:00 am
This review is part of IGN's cover of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Alan Turing's legacy was as ciphered as the World War II codes he broke. Confidentiality kept his miraculous work breaking Hitler's “Enigma Code” from the public eye. Criminal charges filed against him for homosexuality, prosecution provoking him to commit suicide by cyanide at the age of 41, shuffled him into obscurity. In The Imitation Game, Headhunters director Morten Tyldum and Benedict Cumberbatch, at the top of his game, forge the definitive account of Turing's life.
A few months into the war, Britain struggles to counter German movement. Enter: Turing, a mathematician and puzzle enthusiast who might be MI6's last hope of breaking the impenetrable Enigma code. Prickly, socially awkward, and aware of his own genius, Turing's major hurdle isn't cracking the Nazis' cipher, it's playing nice with his fellow cryptologists. He looks down upon team leader Hugh Alexander (Matthew Goode) and the underlings, eventually going over their heads, straight to Winston Churchill, to gain control of the project and push his idea forward.
The team will build what would go on to be known as the “Turing machine,” a proto-computer that, theoretically, runs through all 159 million million (that's 18 zeros) code possibilities and decipher the Enigma code. Recruiting England's top nerds, including crossword wizard Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), and avoiding MI6 bureaucracy like Commander Denniston (Game of Thrones' Charles Dance) at all costs, Turing lays down £100,000 for a gamble that could end the war — or stall Britain to the point of destruction.
Morten Tyldum constructs wall-to-wall tension that slips in an undercurrent of sadness, elevating The Imitation Game above the commonplace thriller. As a man braving childhood fears and mental illness to solve the world's problems, the unconventional Benedict Cumberbatch dominates. “The world is different place because you weren't normal,” Knightle...
- Matt Patches
The Imitation Game is assertive and makes a serious claim as one of the best spy thrillers ever made. There are sub plots that all resonate and never feel forced. This will not only keep your tension level at a fever pitch but could leave you in tears to walk home with.
Nov 21, 2014 · He frames The Imitation Game as a thriller, presenting the story of Turing, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, as he attempts to crack Germany's Enigma machine — an encryption device that’s ...
