A statistician writes a comedy

Rating: 3/10 (1 June 2015)

Admittedly witty and dense with intelligent dialogue, Imitation Game suffers in that it never takes the time to attentively develop any of its characters. It's too biographical - this is who they are and done. Moreover, try swaying the vote at a birthday party with the literal plot synopsis of a story of a man who builds a computer. That being said, its intention are noble; "sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine." Regardless, during the movie, I couldn't help but blindly prescribe to myself what I recall as a more adequate tale of a brilliant, unique individual a la A Beautiful Mind.
My rubric:
2. You and I, we could make something more engrossing with a million dollars and the length of the runtime. Absolutely dreadful, a total drag - save yourself.
4. Average. Post-mortem of your mildly entertained time, you are unenthused.
6. The threshold for willful re-watching. You get excited when it's brought up casually in conversation.
8. The go-to movies. You've employed yourself to actively advertise someone else's work to share the satisfaction. The obsession extends beyond promotion and into understanding. You exhaust yourself, concerned in the detail and ensuring no one could ever introduce you to an element you haven't explored.
10. A work of art that radically develops one's self comically, emotionally, morally or imaginatively with lasting affect.