A genuine masterpiece ,a gem of a movie compared to the other adaptations.

Rating: 8/10 (18 June 2015)

A tale of a true super hero,who did not just save millions of lives,but also laid the foundations to the computer age.I usually avoid war related movies because of all the drama, deception, murders and mushy feeling that they can leave you with.I only watched this one because it was a thriller. By the end of it i was rather ashamed that i have for all these years not known the names of some of the most important people in history.And it reminded me again how far we have come from the great wars that raged this planet,the idiotic rules that society demanded the people of that age to follow. As expected it did leave me on a sad note but i have to say i am really glad i watched it.
As expected Benedict Cumberbatch comes up with an amazing performance for the role of a genius, for now it is his bread and butter having already played the legendary Sherlock Holmes.The rest of the cast did well. The story has nice pace altogether but i was left wanting more from it especially during the final minutes of the movie. I wish they elaborated more on how the decryption actually helped winning the war.Instead the war was over...just like that. I can understand they didn't want to show Alan Turing committing suicide at the end but i think they should have.They did not even have the courtesy to show a real photo of his at the end,which one would normally expect to see at the end of movies which are real life adaptations. All these things left me thinking that the ending is rather rushed and left me wishing they could really have handled the last moments of the movie better. But despite everything, its still a gem of a movie with great performances and a recommended watch for both war and thriller movie enthusiasts.