The Imitation Game (2014)
Genre: Biography / Drama
Duration: 114 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / United States
Directed by: Morten Tyldum
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode
IMDb score:
8,0 (873.656)
Releasedate: 14 November 2014
The Imitation Game plot
"The true enigma was the man who cracked the code."
Film about the life story of Alan Turing, a British mathematician and computer scientist. During World War II, he worked for the British crypto-analytical service, whose goal was to decipher intercepted encrypted messages from the Germans. Turing's greatest achievement was to be one of the first to break Germany's Enigma codes, giving the Allies control of the Atlantic and ultimately winning the war.
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Actors and actresses
Alan Turing
Joan Clarke
Hugh Alexander
Detective Robert Nock
John Cairncross
Peter Hilton
Commander Denniston
Stewart Menzies
Jack Good
Sergeant Staehl
Reviews & comments
IH88
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- 9761 messages
- 3190 votes
“Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
Still a wonderful movie. Turing is an intriguing character, and director Tyldum and Cumberbatch make sure that this also comes out well in The Imitation Game. Turing is asked by the British government during World War II to decipher intercepted encrypted messages from the Germans. A very interesting fact that also makes for a fascinating spectacle.
I expected a fairly heavy and dramatic film, but there are also surprisingly light parts in it. Keira Knightley and Cumberbatch in particular have some fun scenes and good chemistry. The dramatic scenes (especially the last one) between the two are also very strong. The life story of Turing is actually deeply sad, but with The Imitation Game there is still the recognition.
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Panoramix
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- 290 messages
- 344 votes
Great story beautifully filmed but overly dramatized and inconsistent. The characters are predictable stereotypes with little depth. Turing is rendered unbelievable, especially by how his autism (isn't that it?) is portrayed; one scene he plays the absolute neurotic who cannot decipher any social construct and reacts incomprehensibly to the fact that people do not always literally say what they mean, while later (in the film) it turns out that he was already astonished as a child about the fact that people are often not literal in what they say and he had to decipher those social constructs. The story is unnecessarily dramatized. By unnecessary I mainly mean that the story is already so bizarre and impressive, that the exaggeration only has the opposite effect. It would have come out better with a more objective view. An exemplary example is the contrivance with which the Turing test is also woven into the story.
So it's only the beautiful images and the great and deeply tragic story that make this film worth watching. However, much more had lived there.
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
Mediocre.
An enjoyable film, but not much more than that. Tyldum had in any case left a pretty positive impression with Passengers . He immediately lost it again with The Imitation Game. Another biography film like all the others, most of which you can predict fairly well. Handsome from someone Alan Turing didn't even know.
Cumberbatch is doing pretty well. It's not a global role he plays. Sometimes a bit too exaggerated, but in general he holds his own very well. Knightley was horrible. Someone like Dance also plays such a completely ridiculous figure. The "villain" of the biography film. Come on.
Visually reasonable. Enough colors during the short war scenes and the whole code cracking room looks pretty cool and colorful. Although I would have liked to see more of the outside world. That's where the film works best. There really is an atmosphere.
Too bad the film lacks any kind of impact. Especially towards the end when Turing almost dies the film just lacks some impact. For the rest, every scene is quite strong and American. I seriously doubt that I should really believe this as a biography film. It's just so American with British actors and actresses. Such a scene as running to the room together when Turing has an idea to crack the enigma and actually does it. And that Beard's brother is on that boat. I find it hard to believe things like this.
That is the sore point of the film. I can't take this seriously as a biography film at all. Or as a drama film. It often looks a bit stupid. Visually fine and Cumberbatch's acting is solid. For the rest entertaining and fast, but do I find this special? Well no.
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