Turing deserves a better legacy than this.

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2016)

It is Turing for Dummies. I am reminded of the Al Jolson story where they neglected to mention two of his four wives in his bio pic. The Poles made a huge initial contribution to tackling the Enigma problem. This film not only largely ignores that, but creates the impression Enigma was all that happened and Turing was running the whole show. The reality is a complex, compelling and far more thrilling story involving a collection of very clever people. There is no mention of Tommy Flowers. Tommy who? And what of the Lorenz traffic? What of Max Newman and John Tiltman. His team reverse engineered Lorenz without ever seeing one. It was an astounding intellectual exercise. Turing was a genius, one of many at Bletchley. I think he deserves better than this twaddle by numbers. I am surprised they didn't include a montage and a group of Bletchley staff walking in slow motion in front of a series of exploding Enigma machines. It is puerile lazy dross.