Conflicted ...

Rating: 7/10 (17 January 2015)

In terms of acting it was top notch and Cumberbatch really delivered a masterpiece. There is also almost nothing to criticize about the execution, even though they could have done a slightly better job mixing the 3 timelines together to underline certain moments and improve the pacing. But as a whole I was rather disappointed, because it turned out to be a Hollywood-ified drama where only the message itself - that Turing was a great scientist but flawed human and that he suffered a gross injustice due to prejudice - remained in tact, but all the details that made the real story so interesting where thrown out the window and replaced by tropes. I don't mind creative license in movies, but in this case it was unnecessary and way too much.