Passionless, Pointless, Doomed to Failure

Rating: 3/10 (21 January 2015)

Why does every dramatic film these days have to reach toward higher motives than buying the stars and executives new Ferraris and more girls (which brought us all the finest works in cinema in the past). Have to save the whales or bring peace on earth or have people sympathize to the problems of the protagonist. We went to a spy movie and a passionless, pointless, doomed to failure, non-love affair between an Aspergerish closeted gay genius and my least favourite caterpillar eyed and continually sighing actress broke out. I know this will get me in trouble, but Tury was not special because he was homosexual and was penalized for this in the last century; as pointed out in big letters at the end of the picture this torture of homosexuals was very common then. And his achievement may well have been due to his Aspergers; but this is not unusual either. Remove all mathematicians in history with Aspergers (which is what we call it now) from society and we'd be living in sheds. His accomplishment was breaking the code, yet the makers of this movie made this REAL saving of the world a side story to support a tale of Tury's personal life. And by doing this they fail the viewers and ultimately fail Tury himself. He surely would have preferred to have been seen as a brilliant mathematician who helped end WW2, rather than a strange, oppressed, tortured homosexual who took his own life.