Decent film, poor movie-making practice. Waste of source material.

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2015)

Should you watch, is the question.
I say; if you've never heard of "Turing" or the "Enigma machine", have little to no interest in the source material, rather are just out for a Hollywood tale of olds with a lime and ginger twist - this film simply, as a previous reviewer so eloquently put, "Ticks all the boxes". That being said, though well crafted, the film shies away from its underlying historical events in favor of some very generic Hollywood storytelling.
To be clear, I'm not at all referring to historical inaccuracies prominent throughout. I'm quite OK with those. But rather that in its adaptation, naturally occurring insights inherent to the historical events were thoroughly overwritten. A tale of intellectual pursuits, dedication, hard work and cooperation was replaced with yet another tale of exceptionalism. Not to say Turing was not exceptional, rather, that since his true virtues could not be easily dramatized, any and all facts were blundered into a chaos that is somewhat irrespective of the real events and people.
Though in itself a decent movie, in its disloyal depiction of historical events the film fails to respect its source material, and would have perhaps more appropriately been labeled fiction inspired by real events (much like Song of ice and fire, to name an example).