Not perfect, but still great

Rating: 7/10 (4 February 2015)

I finally saw the movie in the theater and i thought it was pretty good. Not that it has no flaws, because there definitely are a few but those are more on a subjective point of view. But I'm still glad to say that i got my money's worth and that the film was pretty much what i expected it to be. I, mainly wanted to see the movie because, of course, Benedict Cumberbatch, but After watching a few trailers i thought that the story was kind of interesting too. I found it important to inform myself about the events and persons this movie's story is based on. So i read a bit about Alan Turing to know what this man was like and i'm glad to say that Cumberbatch plays this character brilliantly. He did a very good job of convincing me, that the man that i see on the screen is Alan Turing and not some guy playing Alan Turing. The other performances were also really good but Cumberbatch shined the most. The majority of the film was also very well directed and there weren't many scenes where i found something that bothered me. However, every time i noticed a flaw, it immediately took me out of the experience and i was reminded that i'm just watching a movie.
In the few scenes where the viewer sees the actual war happen, you don't need to pay extra attention to notice that the computer generated effects are really crappy and it took me out immediately. I know that the movie is not about that but it could have made for a better experience if i wasn't suddenly reminded of the fact that what i'm looking at is not real. I found it also distracting that in the scene where Turings machine finally works, that the music was intrusively loud. The score in this movie is for the most part really quiet and subtle and i really loved that, but in this one scene it gets distractingly loud as if it wants to spoil you what's going to happen, and it does exactly that. It's probably pretty obvious that the machine was going to work in this scene but the movie found it was necessary to tell me that i should feel excited now because the machine is going to work. Also, as someone who informed himself about Alan Turing before watching the movie, i had the feeling that the creators of this picture tried to rub it into my face that Alan Turing created one of the first things known to mankind that we can call a Computer by telling me that at the end through a faded in text. And even if you don't inform yourself about that before the movie, i still think that the audience this film is targeting should be able to realize that by themselves.
But overall i still think this is a great movie because the few flaws that bothered me do not make it necessarily worse. I just think i could enjoy it more If those weren't present. If you're interested in movies or just like Benedict Cumberbatch, i would say go and see it.