Good but not great telling of the story of Alan Turing

Rating: 7/10 (28 December 2014)

Overrated by the critics. Cumberbatch gives a very good, but not award winning performance. Mark Strong and Charles Dance were fine as usual. The script is hackneyed and very weak. You know that the melodrama and incidents are made up to add dramatic tension. That effort fails. I'm sure that the story as presented in this film has little relation to the details of Turing's life. His parents and older Baronet Brother are never mentioned. He is shown to be a runner, but nothing about th fact that he is a word class and extreme runner is mentioned. It sounds like nitpicking, but its just an illustration of the failure to attend to details. The contributions of the others on Turing's team are given little consideration. The 1996 BBC TV film about Turing called Breaking the Code staring the great Sir Derek Jacobi is much better than this over-hyped version. Go to youtube and watch that instead.