So inaccurate it's embarrassing, 1st review I've ever bothered to do.

Rating: 3/10 (14 January 2017)

Yes I joined IMDb just to say - please don't think this film is in any way accurate. Secondly - please don't watch it for fun! The invention of the world's first super computer should not go down like this. I also cringe to think of people discussing the war with what they learned in this film. I don't think it's even a stand alone good romance / historical fiction either. The boiled down plot is very childish, makes little sense as it dawdles emotionally along. Ahem - there was a wee war on? Where's the flight / fight that would be in effect...
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If you want to know anything about the real story please watch the English documentary Codebreakers, containing actual mathematical techniques used in cracking codes.The movie lacks any actual maths or cryptography at all. And the docu also shares more info about Turin and Flower's futures after the war which I found fascinating. I won't spoil that for you! Seriously cool men did all this, not just one guy.
Cumberpatch is one of my fave actors too. Very disappointed he got involved in such a ruination of two of the most important historical stories of the 20th C. It's not often that real life is so much more interesting that a film! The acting is solid, although hugely similar to most of his other stock performances, so no new angle except for his sad eye moments... bit of an eek addition to his portfolio. Victimy without having much charisma. From what I understand in real life, Turin was really quite dapper, they weren't having a popularity contest down at Bletchley park because, ...there was a WAR going on! Being gay / bullied / unpopular not as important as saving your country! Of course IRL he got in trouble after people found out he was gay. It was the 40s. And there was no mention in real life of fully incompetent superiors, this is just thrown in for extra bullying effect I guess!
Also he words that they say in the movie helped them to crack enigma are fully bogus and never appeared in the real transmissions. Not in code. It wasn't even enigma !?! it was a machine Hitler called TULLY. Enigma was broken 10 years prior by the Polish! There were no woman on the crack team of maths heads who of course had no say in what info was later shared. So much unimaginative fantasy. Really could be the most disappointing movie I've ever seen. I quite like Keira also.
NOTE TO CREW: don't go making movies about something super important that the allies can be so proud of and then mix it up with Alice in Wonderland and a 12 year old's expose on bullying please.
Also there is also a heavy touch of... ''straights won't be able to sympathise with gay people unless they've been bullied severely'' in it. Very unnecessary.
Please believe I'm not a continuity geek really, this was just so bad as well as historically inaccurate. I was so looking forwards to it too. I left it playing in the sitting room I walked out before the last 15 minutes, after thinking how stoopid it was that the main (imaginary) woman in the story married a homosexual that had never kissed her, and 6 months later with some kind of straight face managed to look mildly surprised that he was not straight after he confessed to her. It would have made more sense if she had burst out laughing or cried. But no - I guess as an actor she had lost interest in the floundering plot at that point also. I did end up going back to and check what facts they shared with the audience at the end of the movie, just seemed to be the tragic gay only based facts really.
Come on. I mean doesn't it even seem too ridiculous, the story line? A socially awkward mathematician with no military training being allowed to judge what info to share with his immediate superiors? Being made an honorary spy? If Britain had been this crap at intelligence the war would never have been won, honestly. This movie had the chance to put the yanks straight, that the British codebreaking won the war more for the allies than the American input at the end of the war. Hmm... these producers are American...
Please watch Codebreakers the documentary, especially if you have an interest in problem solving. I didn't enjoy having to bring back the word Bogus.
Pros: close ups of the machine (and woolly vests) were interesting. But the starring computer was not called what the movie called it : Christopher (too gay lol), but was really known as Colossus. I think the story of the invention of the world's first super computer / computer deserved a much more valiant effort, what lazy film making.
I will be blacklisting this group of directors / screen writers from my future viewings as I really don't respect how they think, feel, or handle facts. Beware WEINSTEIN BROTHER's PRODUCTIONS! NOT WORTH viewing.