The Imitation Game

Name: The Imitation Game
Genre: History, Drama, Thriller, War
Released: 2014-11-14
Duration: 113 min

The true enigma was the man who cracked the code.

20141h 53mcritics 8.0/10

History Drama Thriller War

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.

starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear

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Read from 112 comments (77 from Reddit, 31 from Metacritic, 4 from TMDB reviews) — 23 of them described how it moves.

➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Hard going most of the way through. Very little of it ever resolves. Marked above the line: 1 that gave people chills.

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Reddit55 read

“when we shifted focus to that aspect of his life later in the film it felt a bit tacked on”
eddie_vedder_voice▲ 48about 75–100% inread it ↗
“The bigotry Alan faces throughout his life made more of an impact on the film and they made that abundant at the end. It's about time they told his story and is heartbreaking to watch a film when our world was like this not long ago and yet we still are facing a world with homophobia.”
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“My heart just kept breaking from the scene in the headmaster's office all the way to Joan's last visit.”
marfalight▲ 32about 0–100% inread it ↗
“the chills it gave me when the enigma machine finally worked”
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Metacritic5 read

“At the end multiple tear jerking scenes were built in to help you towards that emotional state.”
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“le film est souvent drôle à cet égard durant sa première partie d'ailleurs”
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“Alan Turing was a fascinating, complex person who deserves to be better known to the world. Likewise his story is important and deserves to be told rather than forgotten. Had high hopes for 'The Imitation Game', after hearing so many good things about it, and it ended up being one of my favourite films of 2014. That 'The Imitation Game' is historically inaccurate and has distortions didn't offend me as much as some reviewers, biographical dramas are notorious for this so it's come to be expecte”
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“In "The Imitation Game," Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing, a British genius who helped bring an end to World War II through computer science and math. The film, which is set in the 1930s and beyond, has an "Oscar bait" feel to it but manages to tell the story of a complex man who struggles to fit in with society. Cumberbatch does a great job of portraying Turing's brilliance, failures, persistence and cerebralness, while the supporting cast of Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode complement h”

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