Patronizing and Overrated

Rating: 4/10 (7 February 2015)

*Minor Spoilers*
There was something about this film that just annoyed me as an audience member. I understand that Benedict Cumberbatch gave an incredible performance and that isn't up for debate, however I felt very patronized while watching it.
Whether it was the scene that introduced Kiera Knightley's character to us where she so 'awkwardly' stumbles late into the test, which produced such half-assed tension because we already knew the top billed actress would get in, or whether it was the way Charles Dance's character was so evil and had no good characteristics about him making him not a character but an annoying obstacle for Turing to fight, I was left thoroughly unsatisfied.
Also, the fact that they support gay rights and women rights is one thing, but the way they shove it down our throats is another. I would like to believe that most of this film's audience already consider's gay and women rights standard and not a nice treat to get.
It seemed like the only characters that were likable at all were only because everyone else was a 1 dimensional force of stereotypical discrimination (And don't bother explaining that in that period it is how people were because people are always 3 dimensional and not just there for the sake of being an opposition).
All in all, Benedict Cumberbatch gave an incredible performance, but in combination with several poorly written characters and scenes as well as the forced and overdone themes of gay and women's rights made this a fairly negative viewing experience.
Very overrated 6/10