Turing was much great than what the movie is!

Rating: 7/10 (28 January 2015)

The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch is based on the life of Alan Turing. Alan Turing is the famous mathematician and cryptanalyst who helped the Allies break Nazi communication codes and end the war early. He is also considered the father of Artificial Intelligence and very early founders of computer science. He was convicted for homosexuality leading him to commit suicide at the age of 41. This is a great story to make a career defining movie, but Morten Tyldum disappoints in some aspects. The movie is very superficially made dealing only with the subject that Turing was a legend and was mistreated by British Government, it fails to capture his brilliance and the depth in his life. A good comparison would be with A Beautiful Mind on the life of John Nash, which presents an entertaining and holistic description of the protagonist's life. In The Imitation Game, the machine that Turing creates to break Nazi codes is like a black box! Cumberbatch delivers a very strong performance and the production design is also noteworthy. The Imitation Game comes across like an Oscar enticing stuff that makes us sympathetic towards Turing and not respectful.