Just watched it and while it wasn't horrible, I found it rather pathetic, corny and predictable...not very original at all? A bit black and white, also? And, as others have pointed out, not very historically exact...
I dunno...I was expecting more!! And I know Cumberbatch is the sh*t at the moment; I truly think people would watch him read the phone book :-)
i thought it a very poir film, highly inaccurate, and Cummerbatch didn't seem at all like Turing as i have seen him described.
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I think there's a gulf between those who think it matters if a film based on historical events and real people portrays those events and people accurately, and those who think if it's good entertainment that's all that matters.
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I thought the movie was wonderful. Witty dialogue, fantastic acting, good directing and cinematography, made you care about Turing. Not completely historically accurate but it's a movie. That's what they do. I'm actually surprised most people responded unfavorably.
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Entirely agree. The scriptwriter of TIG (Graham Moore), claims Alan Turing as his hero. It's a poor way to treat a hero. I would go as far as to say that such a claim is as false as his knowledge of the history of Enigma, Bletchley, and of Turing, and as false as his screenplay about all three. To those who do know about all three the movie is an utter farce, and a disgraceful epitaph to all those who were involved in the real events.
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It's well acted and photographed but the script is just dumb in some places.
shareThis movie is kind of a response to the even less historically accurate U571, where the only accurate thing was the numbering scheme of German submarines. This screenplay suffers from the same deficiency as a lot of modern writing. Mad Men comes to mind as a glaring example. I don't know if it's lack of research of the era they're writing or trying to appeal to other millennials by writing in modern colloquial speaking style of their generation. Besides its historical flaws, it can be distracting.
shareI bailed out halfway through. I don't think the Norwegian director had a good grasp of how British people talk to and interact with each other. Many parts of the screenplay were also very lame.
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