Good movie but an over-dramatization of the life of a brilliant man

Rating: 8/10 (19 January 2019)

Alan Turing was a brilliant man and he lived an interesting but challenging life; his story most definitely deserved to be told. While the movie in itself is entertaining, it is taking too many liberties with what really happened for the sake of dramatization and it's taking away from the gravitas of the real Turing's life and the undeniable impact his work had on the world of computing.
There are some questionable choices in the editing (weird uses of archive footage here and there for example) and while Cumberbatch offers an amazing performance it sometimes makes even more obvious the weakness of some of the other actors.