Good True Story but.......................... part spoiler

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2015)

This was a great true story but the film has numerous irritations where they dumb down and patronize the audience. Why do film makers so often assume audience are too stupid to notice things that make no sense ? E.g. Our intrepid code breakers can just ring someone and quickly divert a convoy with 30 minutes to spare on their first successful decoded message. Sitting in a tea room discussing how important it is that the enemy has no idea codes have been broken. To emphasize this to the stupid audience, they have wounded soldiers being unloaded outside the window. No explanation where they came from? or why hurt! The acting is generally good. It is a great true story and I would have suggested they could have made a better film by being more historically accurate. Instead they have dumbed it down which spoiled much of the film for me.