Says something about modern audiences

Rating: 5/10 (16 March 2015)

This is the movie made about Alan Turing for an audience that thinks you are a genius if you can work out the change at Macdonalds.
The movie going public has become so dumbed down it can't follow the story of the genius who helped win the War and changed the world, without latherings of trivialised romantic nonsense.
It didn't have to be a documentary, but it certainly didn't need to be the Classic Comics meets Mills and Boons.
Enigma didn't pretend to be based on Turing's life, but was twice the movie that this is. In Enigma the characters showed real stress, real hard work, and real pressure. All the characters in The Imitation Game do is talk about "how hard it is", hand to weary forehead, but it is all unbelievable pretendsies.
The execs in charge of the focus groups then throw in a dash of feminism to cynically engage a female audience who they think might be turned off by a geeky plot.
The twists and turns of supposed imminent sackings and simple minded explanations of the counter espionage tactics (supposedly worked out by Turing) is just absolute nonsense. It fails to realistically portray the real great love of Turings life, his schoolboy friend, and chooses to play up the misplaced proposal to Keira Knightly.
This movie takes a great story of triumph, achievement followed by tragedy, and reduces it to a lame romance.