Bollywood

Rating: 1/10 (20 February 2016)

I was so bored by the movie that I honestly quit it at an hour and some minutes. The effects were terrible, and the script tries to rewrite the attitudes of people in history (i'm sorry, but homosexuality was illegal because people knew that it's disgusting). Character development is especially weird, colleagues go from hating Turing to liking him lightning fast, and for no reason at all. Turing is in love with a woman even though he's a homosexual (yeah...what?). In the trailer you see a tank run over a helmet and the helmet isn't crushed, but is moved by an obvious spring mechanism...the rest of the effects weren't much better than this example. I think the movie has received so many good reviews because the British are comparing this British movie to their other British quality movies. If you're an American, beware that this movie would receive about 4 out of 10 stars here. Oh, and the thing that bothered me the most was that true geniuses are not socially inept morons. This movie still plays on the stereotype that geniuses appear to be social morons, which just isn't true. And if you look up the bio for Turing you'll find that people thought of him as "unconceited," yet this movie portrays him as a completely conceited moron. Turing would probably be very disappointed in the way he was portrayed. I gave it 1 out of 10 to counterbalance all the "yay, go British movies!" votes, but really it deserves about 4 to 5 stars out of ten.