A good implementation but could have been better

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2015)

Been waiting for don't know how long to write a review for this movie but finally here we are and so here is my much awaited(by myself) review.
The movie in its entirety is a satisfactory watch but requires patience from the audience at moments. There are quite a few moments in movie where it felt slow and dragging on. There is quite a lot of drama as it a biography and based on true events, but the main theme keeps you captivated throughout its duration. Benedict Cumberbatch has outdone himself again. Unlike his role in Sherlock he does play the role of a genius here too but with a asperger like problem. The main fault of this movies comes in the approach they took in presenting the life of Alan Turing. Where they were supposed to show scientific leap that was a result of the mind and efforts of Alan Turing they focused much more on his personal problems which made the movie slow and boring at moments. I for myself felt like fast forwarding and skipping scenes at points but wasn't able to do that since i was sadly in the theatre. The later part of movie felt more like an unneeded extension which could have ended better with a simple epilogue.
The movie commences with a scene of Benedict sitting in a interrogation room, alone, quiet, in deep thought, as a lush melody chimes in background, the detective enters the room and he starts to talk, "Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen. You're mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know." And thats it. Thats the best part of movie right there. The whole scenario draws you in, gives rise to a grand expectation which the movie fulfils beautifully as it progresses. Soon, we get to meet with Alan Turing, socially brash but a prodigy mathematician, a role brilliantly played by Benedict Cumberbatch. The time setting is of World War II, and Germans are using encryption for tranferring all their messages which is a pretty advanced and unbreakable in that era. One thing leads to another and we have our genius mathematician developing first computer to crack the encryption uncrackable by humans. The whole idea is just fascinating and it seduces you to watch more but then the things start taking a turn for the worse. We start seeing more of Alan Turing personal problems than the things about the grand ongoing World War at hand. Finally our hero saves the day by creating a computer but suicides due to strict laws against homosexuals in that era.
Overall, the movie was a good watch and worth every penny but it could have been implemented better. They could have toned down drama and decreased run time to make it bit more fast paced. I was very excited about this movie when i saw its trailers and i wont say that i am dissatisfied with it but i m not satisfied either.