The Imitation Game

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2015)

Alan Turing was a remarkable man, but so much of The Enigma Project, or Ultra, story, is left untold. The scenes at the bar, the honor among mathematicians, and the totally fictional Kiera Knightley character mimic The Beautiful Mind. The Beautiful Mind, with a few fictional alterations (the nature of Nash's paranoia, etc.) is a true story and so well acted. The acting in The Imitation Game was good but two dimensional; nothing like Crowe and Connelly in A Beautiful Mind. It seems the author/director/producer of The Imitation Game wanted to focus on the terrible treatment of homosexuals - truly tragic, yes. Cummerbach was well cast but seemed to be playing Sherlock, with slower speech. But to overcome schizophrenia and win the Nobel, with the woman you loved staying by your side (they did leave out the divorce, but they continued to live together) is a true story of heroic stature - the kind Russell Crowe loves.