A bore

Rating: 6/10 (31 December 2014)

A biopic of Alan Turing, the father of modern computers. He spent WWII inventing a machine to decode the infamous Nazi Enigma machine. He was a closeted homosexual and probably had Aspergers Syndrome, as he had a very difficult time communicating to the people around him. He's played by Benedict Cumberbatch, and it's the sort of performance that wins actors awards - not to demean him, because he's very good. Keira Knightley provides a needed sense of warmth to the film as a brilliant mathematician who helps him break the code. This film was decent, but, to be frank, I was a little bored throughout a lot of it. I don't like how the script is structured (it intersperses flashbacks to his childhood and to a post-war time near his death in the mid-50s). The filmmaking is very pedestrian.