Bletchley Park gets the full Hollywood treatment

Rating: 3/10 (12 February 2015)

Even before I researched into the true story of Alan Turing and the significant part he played in the war effort I could tell when this movie was straying into fiction. Commander Denniston ordering the destruction of Turing's 'Bombe' decoder machine (renamed Christopher in the movie after Turing's schoolboy friend), Turing getting punched in the face (I don't think so!) and the absurdity of one of the Cryptographers having a Brother on-board one of the ships during the sequence when Turing forbids the team informing the Hierarchy of an imminent U-Boat attack on the British fleet (Please!). Cumberbatch is good as Turing but its not an Oscar winning performance nor is this the best film this year....but then again last years Oscar was won by the dreadful '12 Years A Slave' so anything could happen.